New Delhi: Congress MP and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the Enforcement Directorate is planning to carry out raid against him following his ‘chakravyuh’ speech in Parliament. The former Congress chief said that he was “waiting with open arms”.
“Apparently, 2 in 1 didn’t like my Chakravyuh speech. ED ‘insiders’ tell me a raid is being planned. Waiting with open arms @dir_ed ..Chai and biscuits on me,” Gandhi said in a post on X early Friday.
Earlier on Monday, the Congress MP said there is an atmosphere of fear all around with a group of six trapping the entire country in a ‘chakravyuh’. He also promised that the opposition INDIA bloc would break the ‘chakravyuh’.
Participating in the debate in the Lok Sabha on Budget 2024-25, Gandhi had said that thousands of years ago in Haryana’s Kurukshetra, six people killed a youth, Abhimanyu, in a ‘chakravyuh’. He further said that a ‘chakravyuh’ has violence and fear. He was referring to the Mahabharat legend according to which Abhimanyu was killed in a ‘chakravyuh’. He had said the ‘chakravyuh’ is also called a ‘padmavyuh’ for its resemblance to a lotus (BJP’s election symbol) formation.
In 2022, Rahul Gandhi and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi were questioned by the ED for several days in the National Herald case. Both are presently out on bail. Recalling his ED interrogation during a Parliament proceeding in July, Gandhi said, “There were 20 plus cases against me, a two-year jail sentence, my house was taken away, and I was interrogated by Enforcement Directorate for 55 hours.”