NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Occasion drew a pointy distinction between the Congress throughout Mahatma Gandhi‘s period and its present-day management, invoking the continuing Nationwide Herald case involving Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. The feedback got here in because the Enforcement Directorate made submissions earlier than the court docket noting {that a} “prima facie” case of cash laundering had been made out towards Congress leaders. “There was a time when Congress was the Congress of Mahatma Gandhi, the place the membership charge was simply 4 annas. The slogan was once ‘Ek chawanni chaandi ki, Jai bolo Mahatma Gandhi ki.’ And now, below the management of the modern-day Gandhis, not simply the nation, even the property of the get together appears to belong to them,” BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi mentioned.BJP chief Shehzad Poonawalla additionally hit out on the two leaders saying, “Loota hai toh lautana hai…At this time, there may be all proof of how useful curiosity from Rs 5000 crore price of public property was directed to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.”In the meantime, the Rouse Avenue Court docket in Delhi has begun listening to opening arguments from the ED on the cognisance of its prosecution grievance towards Sonia, Rahul and others in reference to a cash laundering case linked to the Nationwide Herald. Further solicitor common (ASG) SV Raju, representing the ED, argued that the offence of cash laundering was clearly established, citing the existence of proceeds of crime and alleging continued felony exercise to generate such proceeds. The investigative company initiated its investigation in 2021, following a Justice of the Peace court docket’s cognisance of a personal grievance filed by Swamy on June 26, 2014. The company not too long ago filed its chargesheet within the case.