Act of vendetta, state-sponsored crime: Congress on ED's chargesheet against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: Congress has termed the ED charge sheet against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case as an act of "vendetta politics" and described the seizing of the National Herald assets as "state-sponsored crime".

"Seizing the assets of the National Herald is a state-sponsored crime, masquerading as the rule of law. Filing charge sheets against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and some others is nothing but the politics of vendetta and intimidation by the PM and the HM gone completely berserk. The INC and its leadership will not be silenced. Satyameva Jayate," Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh stated in a social media post.

Congress MP and Gandhis' lawyer in the case, Abhishek Singhvi, said; "As stated years ago when this was initiated, the National Herald case is a one-trick wonder, where this government has started a money-laundering investigation without there being any movement of money, any movement of property, any activity which caused the transfer. Merely a not-for-profit company was created to manage the affairs of National Herald, where no dividends can be paid, no commercial transactions take place and the mere creation of that company with Sonia Gandhi and members of the Gandhi family or the late Motilal Vora (then AICC treasurer), has been treated as an act of money laundering. Now there is nothing more except a charge sheet filed in a fake case, in a non-existent case. Anyway this is being contested and will be contested fully in all aspects." Singhvi said the government was exposing itself in the political vendetta.