New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) have accepted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's request to exempt him from further questioning till Monday considering the health condition of his mother and party chief Sonia Gandhi.
On Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate issued fresh summons to Rahul Gandhi to join the investigation in the National Herald case on June 20, granting his request to the agency considering the illness of his mother. Rahul was grilled by the ED for three straight days from Monday to Wednesday. He was expected to appear before the agency on Friday. During the three-day questioning, Rahul has been interrogated for over 30 hours at the ED headquarters in Delhi. Congress leaders and workers, in the meantime, have been vehemently protesting against the questioning of their leader.
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Rahul, meanwhile, will stay at the Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi to look after his ailing mother. "Rahul Gandhi has decided to stay in hospital tonight to look after his ailing mother Sonia Gandhi," a top source told media. Sonia Gandhi was admitted to the hospital on Sunday after she contracted a Covid-19 infection on June 2. The sources had earlier informed that the throat infection team and Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT) specialists were examining her.
Earlier, the party president's daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was staying with her at the hospital as her attendant to look after her, as Rahul was facing the interrogation from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the last three days in connection with the National Herald case.
