Disagreement invites distasteful response from state: Salman Khurshid


New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS): Former External Affairs Minister, Salman Khurshid, has attacked the government for allegedly using agencies against those who disagree with the people in power.

Khurshid said in a tweet, "Many unpleasant things happening in country but must we make matters worse by letting enforcement agencies loose? Dissent is odious, protest is anti-national, disagreement invites distasteful response by the state. This spiral will take us to hell on Earth."

However, it's not clear if Khurshid was referring to the ED raids conducted on Thursday over the alleged links between the anti-CAA protests and the Popular Front of India (PFI).

A few days earlier, he had attacked the government over the farmers' issue, saying it did not believe in dialogues. "Are we heartless and insensitive to use water canons on agitating farmers in the dead of winter? MSP or NRC, the government does not believe in dialogue and conversation. Change is in our hands but we seek ill of other over good of own," he had said.

The financial probe agency is investigating the PFI's "financial links" on alleged charges of fuelling the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests in the country and its role in the northeast Delhi riots in February this year.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday carried searches at 26 premises in nine states linked to the PFI as part of its money laundering probe.

The searches were conducted at the residences and offices of the top PFI brass, including its chairman O.M.A. Salam and Kerala state president Nasarudheen Elamarom, in connection with ED's money laundering probe into the PFI's fundings, sources said.

 

  

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  • anthony, Mangalore

    Fri, Dec 04 2020

    The Country is painfully aware of how the Central Agencies are being misused to target opposition Leaders and Parties.

    This is the Ugly face of Modi's Maan Ki Baat and his innocent pretensions behind TV cameras in his repeated addresses to the Nation.

    Central Government Tax and Enforcement Agencies like Income Tax Dept and Enforcement Directorate have rarely raided BJP Leaders over the last six years.

    It will be nice to know through the media if any BJP leader has been issued any IT or ED Notice during the last six years. ED or IT departments would have known that large sums of money were transacted for luring of MLAs at the time of toppling of non-BJP governments but have turned a blind eye.

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  • Anil, Mangalore

    Fri, Dec 04 2020

    Dissent also invites a distasteful response from your party !!!!!

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