ED raids premises of Rajasthan Congress president in paper leak matter

Congress slammed Centre over ED’s action against its leaders. Pic/PTI

Turning the heat on the ruling Congress in poll-bound Rajasthan, the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday raided the premises of state Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra in Jaipur and Sikar as part of a money laundering probe into the alleged exam paper leak case and summoned Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's son in a foreign exchange violation case.

Besides the premises of Dotasra, a former minister for school education, the agency is also searching the premises of party candidate from Mahua seat in Dausa, Omprakash Hudla, and some others, official sources said. An armed escort of central paramilitary force CRPF accompanied the ED teams.

The Congress slammed the Centre over the ED's action against its leaders in Rajasthan and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of taking the help of probe agencies in fighting polls and said people would give the BJP a befitting reply

Chief Minister Gehlot said, "The ED raids are being done everyday in the state as the BJP does not want that Congress party's guarantees reach the women, farmers and the poor." Elections for the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly will be held on November 25. The results will be declared on November 3.

They've unleashed terror: Gehlot targets BJP

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Thursday slammed the BJP after ED summoned his son Vaibhav and raided the premises of the Congress' state president Govind Singh Dotasra, saying terror has been unleashed in the country. He claimed that Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids happen wherever elections are held. Be it Chhattisgarh, Karnataka or Himachal Pradesh, ED raids happened just before elections, the chief minister said.

"Raids happened but the Congress won the elections. The situation is worrisome. They have unleashed terror in the country," Gehlot told reporters at a press conference here. Asserting that the Congress "will not be scared no matter how hard they try, he alleged the BJP was targeting him through ED raids as they could not topple his government. "We will win the election," the Rajasthan chief minister asserted.

Nov 25
Day Assembly elections will be held in Rajasthan

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