Panaji: All India Congress Committee General Secretary Syed Naseer Hussain on Tuesday said that the National Herald case is a BJP invention meant for digression, diversion, and distortion.
Addressing a press conference in Panaji in the presence of Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Amit Patkar, Hussain reiterated that the case was fabricated by the BJP to deflect attention.
“Digression of public attention from crucial issues facing the nation, diversion from its failures, distortion of the freedom struggle, and disparaging its heritage,” he said.
Hussain alleged that, stung by the Congress party’s historic Gujarat session held recently—where Rahul Gandhi aggressively exposed the BJP—the Modi-Shah duo has once again unleashed the ED, their favourite criminalised extortion machine, on the Congress party.
“The so-called chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate against Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is nothing but pure political witch-hunt,” he said.
“Every member of the Gandhi family—whether in politics or not—is being targeted by the BJP,” Hussain added.
He said it was ironic that for the first time, charges of money laundering are being made in a case where not a single rupee or asset has been transferred.
“Debt is converted into equity to make the balance sheet debt-free. It is a common practice and perfectly legal in nature. Where is the laundering when there is no money?” he questioned.
Hussain further said that selective justice is nothing but political thuggery.
“The Modi government has turned the ED into its election department and is shamelessly misusing it for political vendetta,” he alleged.
The Congress leader stated that the conviction rate of ED cases is just one per cent. “Moreover, 98 per cent of the political cases registered by the ED are against rivals of the ruling party,” he said.
Hussain alleged that the witch-hunt against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s family in fabricated cases is a grotesque abuse of state machinery.
“By targeting the leadership and their families through false cases, the BJP government is desperately trying to muzzle the Congress party— the only force that has consistently stood with the people and for the soul of this nation,” he said.
Hussain described the action as a direct and dangerous assault on the very idea of democratic opposition.
He said it is a crude attempt at political intimidation, orchestrated by the Prime Minister and the Home Minister, calling it “vendetta politics at its worst.”
“No matter how much they try to silence us, we won’t be silenced. Those who try to scare others are scared themselves. This is a political witch-hunt, and the Congress Party will face it head-on,” he said.
