BJP Holds Protest in Jammu, Calls ED Chargesheet Against Gandhis a ‘Final Nail in Congress Coffin’
JAMMU, APRIL 17: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday staged a protest in Jammu against the Congress leadership following the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filing a chargesheet in the National Herald case against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and others. BJP leaders termed it the “final nail in the coffin” of the Congress, accusing its top brass of being “neck-deep in corruption.”
Hundreds of BJP workers, including senior leaders and MLAs Yudhvir Sethi and Arvind Gupta, gathered at Kachi Chawani Chowk and marched in protest, raising slogans against Sonia and Rahul Gandhi while burning their effigies.
“The ED has acted on strong evidence. Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi are involved in the misappropriation of public property allotted to the National Herald newspaper. Their days of evading justice are over,” said MLA Yudhvir Sethi, addressing reporters during the protest.
The ED filed a chargesheet before a special court in the National Herald case, accusing Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, and others of allegedly laundering Rs 988 crore.
The Congress, in response, has alleged that the ED’s move is “vendetta politics” and described the seizure of assets as a “state-sponsored crime masquerading as rule of law.”
Countering this, BJP leaders criticised the Congress for attempting to play the victim card. “The mother-son duo should step down from the party leadership instead of misusing Congress workers to stage protests and cover up their misdeeds,” said former minister Priya Sethi.
She said Congress is trying to divert public attention from the corruption charges by politicising the legal action.
MLA Arvind Gupta also condemned the Congress’s nationwide protests, saying: “While the opposition may have the right to protest, it does not have the right to misuse public properties meant for the National Herald. The law will take its course, and justice will be served.”
The Congress had on Wednesday staged protests outside ED offices across the country, calling the agency’s action politically motivated.
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