Gangtok: 19 March: Enforcement Directorate has chargesheeted Sonia Gandhi ( MP Rajya Sabha) and Rahul Gandhi ( Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha) for alleged money laundering.They are presently on bail On the basis of a petition filed in 2012 case started in the trial court transferred to Income Tax and subsequently now under ED.While the next hearing is on 25th April 25 the BJP leaders across the country have been reacting to the Congress party statement describing the issue as the ‘ Political Vendetta ‘.
Sikkim State BJP Spokesperson Passang G Sherpa has also said ‘ it is due to money laundering, violation of People’s Representatives Act 1951 & IT Act 1961 that the matter is being investigated and case is going on.’
‘Rs 90 crore loan to Publishing company of National Herald and subsequent transfer of funds to Young Indians allegedly by the two political leaders joined by two others,’ according to inputs by PG Sherpa.
