Centre misuses probe agencies to suppress dissenting voices: Congress
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Jaipur: The BJP-led Centre is suppressing the voice of the opposition, misusing investigation agencies ED and the ED and the CBI, Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra accused.
Addressing a meeting held as part of a campaign to raise funds for the ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on Wednesday, he alleged the BJP is scared of Rahul Gandhi and his yatra, PTI reported.
So the central government is trying to suppress the voice of the opposition by misusing the Central Bureau of Investigation, Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Directorate, he alleged.
Dotasra said Gandhi is fighting to provide justice to the people of the country and all Congress workers are joining him.
Senior Congress leaders Vijay Inder Singla, Amrita Dhawan and Tikaram Julie, and party MLAs attended the meeting.
Singla said no one knows more than the leaders of Rajasthan how the BJP is misusing constitutional institutions because they have endured such actions.
The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, which started in Manipur on January 14, is scheduled to cover 6,713 km in 67 days while passing through 110 districts in 15 states before culminating in Mumbai on March 20. It is currently in West Bengal.
Jharkand's former CM Hemant Soren was arrested by the ED recenlty. Soren
has had a tumultuous career since becoming Jharkhand's youngest chief minister at the age of 38. "Life is a great battle, I have fought every moment, I will fight every moment but I will not beg for compromise," he shared on X a poem in Hindi, which roughly translates to this, soon after his arrest.