Ashok Gehlot accuses BJP-led Centre of misusing probe agencies for political gains

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has accused the BJP-led Centre of misusing probe agencies for political gains and asserted that the tactic would boomerang on the saffron party as people have now become aware of it.

New Delhi, Oct 30: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday accused the BJP-led Centre of misusing probe agencies for political gains and asserted that the tactic would boomerang on the saffron party as people have now become aware of it.

Gehlot's son appears before ED

The veteran Congress leaders remarks after the partys Central Election Committee CEC meeting at the AICC headquarters here came while talking to reporters on a day his son, Vaibhav Gehlot, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate ED for questioning in a foreign exchange violation case.

The federal agency issued a summons to Vaibhav Gehlot 43 last week, asking him to appear before the investigating officer of the case at its headquarters on A P J Abdul Kalam Road here under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act FEMA.

Gehlot slams BJP

There is nothing in the case. It is a 12-year-old matter with nothing in it. They also raided the premises of the Rajasthan Congress chief, did not interrogate him, but stayed put at his place. There is a reaction to all this in Rajasthan and this will boomerang on them, Ashok Gehlot told reporters.

The ED action on the orders of those at the Centre, be it in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh, will work to the Congresss advantage as people have now become aware of such tactics of the BJP, he said.

They BJP did this in Karnataka against D K Shivakumar and there were 22 raids against him. But who won the polls? It was the Congress. The same will happen in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, he asserted.

People will give a fitting reply to those BJP leaders on whose orders these raids are being conducted, the Rajasthan chief minister said.

Gehlot accuses Modi government of political vendetta

Today, the raids of these agencies are no longer important. People have come to know very well that in the Narendra Modi government, such raids are conducted only for political gains, he added.

The more they do this, the more we will benefit, Ashok Gehlot said.

Vaibhav Gehlot is the president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association and a member of the All India Congress Committee AICC. Following the ED summons, he had said the agency was putting up 10-12 years old false allegations against him and that too after election dates were declared.

The 200-member Rajasthan Assembly will go to polls on November 25 and the results will be announced on December 3, along with the outcome of the Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana elections.

The ED recorded Vaibhav Gehlots statement in accordance with the provisions of the FEMA, under which legal proceedings are civil in nature.