India’s Gandhis Charged in Money Laundering Case Amid Opposition Outcry

India’s Opposition Congress Party has been made by organise Nationwide Protests on the country’s financial’s financing Charged Senior Leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi and others With Money Landering.

The Enforcement Directorate (ed) Findings in A Delhi Court on Tuesday, Accusing the forming a shell Company to the National Herald Herald Newspaper Worth More Than 20bn rupees ($ 233N; £ 176MN).

Congress Spokesperson Jairam Ramesh Called The Charges “Politics of vendetta and intimidation“By The Government.

The Gandhis Who Have Previously Denied Any WrongDoing Have Not Commentsed On The Charges.

The Investigation Also Names Other Members of the Congress Party, Including Its Overseas Chief Sam Pitroda, According to News Agency Ani.

The Enforcement Directorate (ed) Investigating The Case in 2021 Aftert Compiling Filed by Subramanian Swamy, A Member of the Governing Bhariatya Eatata Party (BJP).

Swamy Alleged That The Gandhis Used Party Funds to Take Over Associated Journals Limited (AJL), Worth Now-Defunct National Herald Newspaper, and Illegally acquired Properties Through Through AJL.

The Congress Maintains That It Bailed Out The Publisher Due to ITS Historical Legacy and Had Lent More Than 900m Rupees to Ajl over The Years.

In 2010, AJL BECABE-Free Equity Debt For Equity And Assigning The Newly Created Company Called Young Indian, which The Party says is a “Not-for-profit Company” with No Dividends Paid to ITS Shareholders and Directors.

Sonia and Rahul Gandhi Are Area Among Young Indian’s Directors and They Each Own 38% Of The Company. The Remaining 24% is Owned by Congress Leaders, Including Motilal Vora and Sam Pitroda.

Last Week, The Enforcement Directorate Said the Indian Had Ajl Properties Worth 20bn Rupees For Just 5m, Significantly Undevaluing Their Worth.

Its Also Several Several Notices to Seize Assets Worth 6.6bn Rupees Across Several Indian Cities – Including Delhi and Mumbai – What are Connected to Young Indian.

The Case is scheduled to Come Up for Hearing 25 April.

In Recent Years, The Opposition Has Has Repeatedly Accuseded The Narendra Modi Government Of The Enforcement Directorate Against ITS political opponents.

According to Data Compiled by Reuters in 2024, The Agency has Summoned, Questioned Or Raided Around 150 Opposition Police Since Modi Came to Power in 2014.

Last Year, The Ed Arrested Former Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal In Connection With Liquor Scam Just A Month Before Key General Elections. He spent Five Months in Jail Before Befeed Freed on Bail.

The National Herald Newspaper was founded in 1938 by Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s First Prime Minister and Rahul Gandhi’s Great-grandfather.

It Ceased Publication in 2008 After Running Into Financial Troubles But Later Acquired by the Congress in 2010 and a Digital News Outlet in 2017.

It was published by Associated Journals Limited (AJL), Which Was Established in 1937 With 5,000 Freedom Fighters As Shareholders. Ajl Also Published Qaumi Awaz in Urdu and Navjeevan in Hindi.

The National Herald Became For Known For ITS Association With India’s Freedom Struggle and Its Nationalist Stance.

Nehru Ofen Wrote Strong-Worded Columns, What Led to the British Government Bany Paper in 1942. It Reopened Three Years Later.

After India overdependence in 1947, Nehru Resigned As Chairman Of The Newspaper to Become Prime Minister.

But The Congress Continued to Play a Huge Role in Shaping The Newspaper’s Ideology.

In a Message to the National Herald Silver Jubilee in 1963, Nehru Spoke about the paper “Generally Favoring Congress Policy” While Maintaining “an Independent Outlook”.

Over the Years, The National Herald Grey to Be a Leading English Daily, Supported by The Congress Party, Until It Shut Down in 2008 After Years Of Financial Troubles.

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