The All India Congress Committee has approached the Election Commission stating that the recent raids by the Enforcement Directorate and other government agencies on the Punjab Chief Minister are politically motivated and is a clear misuse of Central Investigative Agencies which are a direct and clear violation of the Commission’s direction/orders passed during the 2019 Parliamentary Elections.
An AICC Delegation comprising, Mr Randeep S. Surjewala, Dr Abhishek M. Singhvi, Mr Harish Chaudhary, Mr Devender Yadav, Mr Ganesh Godiyal, Mr Pranav Jha, Mr Aman Panwar and others met the CEC virtually to protest against the politically motivated raids by ED, with a view to malign and defame the CM and the incumbent Congress government in Punjab.
The delegation said that the politically motivated raids which were being conducted on congress workers and leaders all across the country misusing Central Government’s investigative agencies should be stopped immediately.
The delegation also reminded the CEC about the Model Code of Conduct violations by the Uttarakhand Government for back-dating and tampering of Government records as also Representation of Peoples Act, 1951 in the State of Uttarakhand.
The delegation requested the EC to take cognizance of their memorandums and in the exercise of all appropriate and residue powers under Article 324 of the Constitution of India issue an advisory to the Central Government on the illegal, motivated, and vendetta driven enforcement actions being undertaken by the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, a month before the general elections.
It is unfortunate that despite a specific direction issued by the
Commission, the Central Government continues to flout it with impunity as if they are baiting this commission to profess that a premeditated Central
Government is neither under the jurisdiction of this Commission nor does it need to adhere to any constitutional authority. The blatant misuse of Central Investigative Agencies for conducting politically motivated raids with the sole objective to publicly defame and malign the leaders of Indian National Congress, particularly, the Congress Chief Minister in the State of Punjab, continues regardless of the Model Code of Conduct and with a view to illegally influence public opinion in the ongoing elections scheduled to be held on February 20, 2022, the delegation said. Lab/SNG/