Senior Congress leaders including Rajashthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, former deputy CM Sachin Pilot, and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor were detained on Thursday as the Congress was protesting against the enforcement directorate’s summons to party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald case.
In a video statement issued from the bus in which the Congress leaders were pushed, Shashi Tharoor said, “We are being taken by the police to an unknown destination. Two other police buses full of MPs and other party colleagues are there. We are trying to head God knows where. The government is misusing its official machinery.. we are very disappointed seeing the government functioning this way.”