As the massive protest was taking place in support of Rahul Gandhi as he reached the office of the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case, Union Minister Smriti Irani said that the Congress is not protesting to save the democracy but is doing so to save Rahul Gandhi’s properties worth Rs 2,000 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She also said that these protests are an attempt to pressurise investigating agencies and that never before has a political family attempted to hold investigative agencies to ransom to protest ill-gotten wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adding further to it, she said that Congress leaders have taken to the streets to pressurise an investigating agency openly because their corruption has been exposed. She asserted that nobody is above the law, not even Rahul Gandhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read Also<\/strong>: Kuwait to deport expats who protested against Nupur Sharma\u2019s remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n She then explained ED’s case to the media and said that a company called Associated Journals Limited (AJL) was founded in 1930 with the purpose of publishing a newspaper and it had around 5,000 freedom fighters as shareholders but is now under the Gandhi family’s control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smriti Irani also said that this company had incurred debts of Rs 90 crore in 2008 and decided that it would enter the property business. Another company that was named Young India was constituted in 2020 with an initial capital of Rs 5 lakh and the Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was made its Director. At that time, Rahul Gandhi alone had a 75 per cent stake in the company and the rest was with his mother Sonia Gandhi and Congress leaders like Motilal Vora and Oscar Fernandes. She further said that 9 crore shares of AJL, which is 99 per cent of the total shared were then transferred to Young India. Congress party then gave Rs 90 crore as a loan to AJL which doesn’t need to be returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n