ED raids leave Chhattisgarh's main Congress leaders fuming

The Enforcement Directorate's officials had begun raiding residential premises of many prominent leaders belonging to Chhattisgarh Congress party and one was the chairman of the labour cell.

Raipur: The Enforcement Directorate's raids at several places in Chhattisgarh which began in the wee hours of Monday continued till late night. Officials from the ED had begun raiding residential premises of altogether nine people, eight of them were prominent leaders belonging to the Chhattisgarh unit of the Congress party and one of them was a chairman of the labour cell.

Raids were going on at Labor Department Chairman Sunny Agarwal's house. Amid the ongoing raid by the Enforcement Directorate officials, Congress leaders were expressing anguish over the incident. Fuming over the ED raids, Congress leaders said, "Our party has been planning to convene a National Convention. Just to pour cold water on our party's national convention, the ED at the behest of BJP was carrying out raids on Congress leaders' houses. The BJP was frightened about our decision to hold party's National Convention at Raipur."

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Congress leaders and workers staged a dharna where ED officials were conducting raids. The protesting Congress leaders were shouting slogans against the ED. Officials from the ED continued searching for papers and others at Bhilai MLA Devendra Yadav's house till 1 am. Whereas ED officials completed the investigation at Congress spokesperson's house situated in Raipur at around 9 am.

As a mark of protest, Congress MLA Vikas Upadhyay along with workers blocked the way of ED officials when they were returning after the completion of investigation. Despite protest, ED officials took the Congress spokesperson along with them.