Delhi Police on Tuesday detained Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with several party leaders as ED quizzes Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald case.
Congress leader Rahul is been taken to Parliament Street police station after being detained from Parliament to Vijay Chowk.
“All (Congress) MPs came here. They talked about inflation and unemployment. They (Police) are not allowing us to sit here. Discussion is not allowed inside (the Parliament) and here they are arresting us,” said Rahul Gandhi before being detained.
Several MPs of the party were detained and were stopped at Vijay Chowk and prevented from marching to Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Congress leader and LoP Mallikarjun Kharge said, “We’re protesting as per the instruction of the police. All of this is a conspiracy by PM Modi and Amit Shah to destroy the opposition and muzzle our voices. We don’t be scared, our fight will continue.”
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi accompanied by her daughter Priyanka Gandhi to the ED office in Delhi.
Earlier on July 21, when Sonia Gandhi was called for the first round of questioning then senior Congress leaders including Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, P Chidambaram, Ajay Maken, Manickam Tagore, KC Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary, Shashi Tharoor, Sachin Pilot, Harish Rawat, Ashok Gehlot, K Suresh, and others are detained while going from Parliament to Congress headquarters.
Notably, on June 1, the ED summoned Sonia Gandhi to appear on June 8 for the first time in a money laundering case involving the National Herald but due to COVID-19, she didn’t appear. Last month the ED also questioned Rahul Gandhi.