‘Hemant Soren would've been washed through BJP's washing machine if…': Congress after ex-Jharkhand CM's arrest

In response to the Enforcement Directorate's action against former chief minister over the alleged land scam, Congress leader and senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi remarked that the situation might have unfolded differently had Hemant Soren aligned himself with the NDA (National Democratic Alliance).

As reported by ANI, Singhvi said, “Had Hemant Soren joined the NDA there would have been a different scene. He would have been washed through BJP's washing machine."

Singhvi further slammed the BJP and alleged that the party has created an authoritarian, absolutist and autocratic system in the world's largest democracy.

Singhvi noted, “I want to ask a fundamental constitutional legal question for which we have only received stunning silence...Yesterday in the Jharkhand assembly where the whole world knows that the figures are roughly 47 or 48 majority and roughly 33 or 32 opposition. After the chief minister had submitted his resignation to the governor a new chief minister with the numbers known was proposed. Why has the governor been paralyzed into inaction for the last 18 hours?"

Meanwhile, Congress leader Kodikunnil Suresh told ANI that the ruling BJP has transformed the central investigation agencies into their agencies to eliminate the entire opposition in the country.

"Central investigation agencies have become BJP agencies. They ceased to be government agencies. They do whatever the BJP leaders tell them," Kodikunnil Suresh told ANI.

He further alleged that the Narendra Modi government is instructing these agencies to carry out tasks aligned with their political agenda.

“The prime minister's office, finance minister's office, and home minister's office are giving directions to the ED and other central government