Kochi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the National Herald case.
She reached Enforcement Directorate headquarters at 12 pm. She was questioned for three hours only considering her health conditions.
She was accompanied by daughter Priyanka Gandhi and son Rahul Gandhi.
The ED told her that it would call her again if needed.
Meanwhile, Congress leaders including MPs protested at various places including in front of ED office in New Delhi. Police used tear gas to disperse protesting Congress. Many senior leaders including 13 MPs from Kerala were detained by police.
Protests were held across the country.
Trains were blocked by Congress workers in Delhi and Thiruvananthapuram. Congress workers torched cars in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
The Congress claimed that it was part of the BJP-led government’s political vendetta. The publication started in 1942 was targeted by the British and now by the BJP.
The debt of the publication was converted into shares to raise money for disbursing arrears of the employees, the party leaders said.
The publication of the Indian National Congress was founded by the late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1938 which was banned by the British government in 1942 during the Quit India movement.
Due to financial problems, it stopped functioning in 2008 and it was relaunched in 2016 as a digital publication.
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