Sonia Gandhi ED questioning Live Updates: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is appearing before the ED for the second time. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi accompanied her to the ED office.


ED questioning Live Updates: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was detained by the Delhi Police amid protests against the ED’s summoning of Sonia Gandhi in an alleged money laundering case. Other party leaders, including Mallikarjun Kharge, Ranjeet Ranjan, KC Venugopal, Manicka Tagore, Imran Pratapgarhi, and K Suresh, have also been detained. The leaders have been taken to Kingsway Camp, DCP (New Delhi) Amrutha Goliath told The Indian Express.

Hitting out at the central government for “dictatorship”, Rahul alleged that they were not being allowed to hold discussions inside Parliament and during protests, the leaders were arrested. “India is a police state, Modi is a king,” Rahul added while speaking to the media.Meanwhile, Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi arrived at the ED office after her lunch break for further in the National Herald money laundering case. After about 2.5 hours of questioning, Sonia had left the ED office for a lunch break at around 2 pm. The agency’s case is based on a trial court order that allowed the Income Tax Department to probe the affairs of the National Herald newspaper and conduct a tax assessment of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. The order was the result of a 2013 petition filed by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, who alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds on the part of the Gandhis in acquiring the newspaper.Senior Gujarat Congress leaders dressed in black kurtas staged a sit-in in Ahmedabad Thursday, protesting the summoning of party president Sonia Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Delhi.

Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee president Jagdish Thakor, working president Jignesh Mevani, MLA Imran Khedawala, former GPCC president Amit Chavda and Ahmedabad Congress president Nirav Baxi, among others staged a protest near Rupali cinema at Sardar Baug.

“It seems like there are two rules for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). When you ask them questions about inflation, law and order and unemployment, they have a set of laws to suppress you. But when you are part of the BJP and involved in crimes, then there are separate sets of laws to save you. BJP has been misusing agencies to ensure that no one can question them and there is no opposition. That is why we have come here to protest,” said Thakor.