"British Couldn't Oppress Us...": Congress Protests On Rahul Gandhi Summons

Congress called the Enforcement Directorate an "election management department", and accused the Centre of using it for political score-settling.

Announcing that Congress would continue its protest march in support of Rahul Gandhi, who is to appear today before the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala took a swipe at the BJP with a taunt on the role of their ideological predecessors in the freedom struggle. "The Satyagrah march will be held in a peaceful and Gandhian way under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi. Neither the British could stop it during the freedom struggle, nor can the current ruling dispensation, who served as informants for the British then," he said today. आज फिर आगाज़ होगा गांधीवादी सत्याग्रह काफिर आगाज़ होगा नई क्रांति का-कायर मोदी सरकार के खिलाफआज फिर आगाज़ होगा नए बलबले का-प्रजातंत्र को रौंदने वाली BJP के खिलाफफिर आगाज़ होगा साहस व संयम का- संविधान का दमन करने वाली ताकतों के खिलाफआज फिर होगा गांधीवादी रणघोषहमारा बयान- pic.twitter.com/cMLuY3is4x

Mr Surjewala was addressing the media today after Congress workers were detained ahead of their march this morning to protest the action against party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case. The party has called the allegations in the case "fake and baseless", accusing the PM Modi-led government of harassment for political vendetta.

He repeatedly called the Enforcement Directorate an "election management department", and accused the Centre of using the probe agency for political score-settling. "The cowardly Modi government has challenged the truth using its pet agency. The truth needs no cover. It can't be suppressed on bent at will," he said, claiming that thousands of Congress workers have been picked up by the Delhi police and "thousands" of barricades have been erected to stop the party's march.