Nagaland Congress urges President of India to stop NDA government from resorting to political vendetta

Our Correspondent
Kohima, June 13 (EMN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) on Monday submitted a memorandum to the President of India through the governor, urging him to restrain the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government from indulging in political vendetta against opponents by using the central agencies.

The NPCC delegation was led by its working president Khriedi Theünuo.

A copy of the memorandum, which was made available to journalists, stated that the political vendetta had been ‘unleashed’ by the NDA government against political opponents in the country, utilising the services of Central government agencies like ED, CBI, NIA etc.

It stated that based on a private criminal complaint filed by a BJP MP in 2013, ‘the Enforcement Directorate has registered a fresh case under the criminal provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after taking cognisance of an Income Tax Department probe against Young Indian Pvt. Ltd.; the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and MP Rahul Gandhi were summoned for recording statements in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper’.

The memorandum maintained that in the earlier case, Rahul Gandhi was given a clean chit by the competent authority but the ED is registering a fresh case against him. It went on to state that the present case filed against the Gandhis is deliberately to harass and silence the opposition leaders from highlighting the failures and wrong policy of the NDA government.