Watch: Youth Congress Workers In Bengaluru Set Car On Fire During Protest As ED Grills Sonia Gandhi
Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar condemned ED summons to party's senior leader Sonia Gandhi
Amid top Congress leaders on Thursday being detained by the police in the wake of nationwide protests against ED questioning the party's interim president Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald case, a car was set on fire allegedly by Youth Congress workers, in front of the ED office at Shantinagar in Bengaluru earlier on Thursday.
"One incident in Sheshadripuram & another in Shantinagar reported wherein miscreants tried to torch one vehicle each at respective places...11 detained; checking which org do they belong to&if it's their own car. No arrest in Sheshadripuram," Bengaluru Central DCP R Srinivas Gowda.
One incident in Sheshadripuram & another in Shantinagar reported wherein miscreants tried to torch one vehicle each at respective places...11 detained; checking which org do they belong to&if it's their own car. No arrest in Sheshadripuram: R Srinivas Gowda, DCP central,Bengaluru
— ANI (@ANI) July 21, 2022
Meanwhile, Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar condemned ED summons to party's senior leader Sonia Gandhi. "There was no need to summon her, they are only harassing her. This is a political vendetta. BJP is afraid of her. They want to mentally harass Congress leaders," DK Shivakumar said, as quoted by news agency ANI.