Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi Admitted To Ganga Ram Hospital Days After Testing Positive For Covid-19

Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said she is stable and will be kept at the hospital for observation.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi (File Image: PTI)

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi was on Sunday admitted to the Ganga Ram Hospital in the national capital owing to Covid-related issues.

Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said she is stable and will be kept at the hospital for observation.

“Congress President, Smt. Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Ganga Ram Hospital today owing to Covid related issues. She is stable and will be kept at the hospital for observation. We thank all the Congress men & women as also all well wishers for their concern and good wishes,” Surjewala tweeted.

This comes as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to the Congress president to appear for questioning on June 23 in connection with a money laundering case involving the National Herald newspaper.

The Congress president, who was supposed to appear before the Enforcement Directorate on June 8, had sought three more weeks in the wake of her Covid-19 infection.

The Enforcement Directorate has also issued summons to Rahul Gandhi in the same case. He was earlier asked to appear on June 2 but the Lok Sabha MP from Kerala’s Wayanad constituency sought a fresh date as he was out of the country.

The Enforcement Directorate later asked Rahul Gandhi to appear on June 13 at its headquarters in central Delhi.

The case pertains to the probe into the alleged financial irregularities in the party-promoted Young Indian that owns the National Herald newspaper. The paper is published by Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and owned by Young Indian Pvt Limited.

The members of the first family of the Congress party, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, are among the promoters and shareholders of Young Indian.

The probe agency had registered a fresh case under the criminal provisions of the PMLA after a trial court here took cognizance of an Income Tax Department probe against Young Indian Pvt Ltd on the basis of a private criminal complaint filed by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in 2013.

Swamy had accused Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others of conspiring to cheat and misappropriate funds with Young Indian Pvt Ltd paying only Rs 50 lakh to obtain the right to recover Rs 90.25 crore that Associate Journals Ltd owed to the Congress.