ED raids, Electoral Bonds and Jairam Ramesh's ‘washing machine’ salvo at ex- Congress MP Naveen Jindal's BJP ticket

Industrialist and former Congress member of parliament (MP) Naveen Jindal switched to the (BJP) on Sunday evening. Less than an hour later, Jindal found his name in the of the saffron party for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls 2024.

The BJP has fielded Jindal from in Haryana, a seat that he represented as a Congress candidate for two terms in 2004 and 2009. The BJP had won all ten seats of Haryana in .

Congress General Secretary took a dig at Jindal saying that the he needed a "giant-size washing machine" after resigning from the Congress party.

"When you need a giant-size washing machine this had to happen. And after making ZERO contributions to the party in the last ten years, saying I am resigning from it is a big joke," Ramesh said in a post on X.

Ramesh was perhaps referring to Jindal, and his company (JSPL), being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a case pertaining to irregularities in allocation of a Jharkhand coal block.

“The PM wanted a Congress-mukt Bharat (India). Instead he has made a Corrupt-mukt Congress by deploying so many washing machines along with the ED and the CBI to force corrupt Congressmen to flee to his embrace," Ramesh added.

The (ED) is also investigating the money laundering charges against Jindal’s company in connection with the allocation of the coal block. In April 2022, the ED had conducted searches at in connection with a case of forex violations.

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