AAP gets ED notice, calls it ‘love letter’ from Centre’s ‘favourite agency’

Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha on Monday said the Enforcement Directorate has served a notice to the Arvind Kejriwal-led party. However, he did not divulge the contents of the notice.

Chadha, in a tweet, described the notice as a “love letter” from Narendra Modi government’s “favourite agency”. The Aam Aadmi Party leader added that he will address a press conference at 1.30 pm on Monday to “expose the political witch hunt of AAP by a rattled BJP”.

In a first, AAP receives a love letter from Modi Government’s favorite agency – the 𝐄𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞.

I will address an important press conference today, 130pm at AAP Headquarters in Delhi – to expose the political witch hunt of AAP by a rattled BJP.

— Raghav Chadha (@raghav_chadha) September 13, 2021

This is not the first time that the Enforcement Directorate’s actions have been called a witch-hunt.

In September 2020, human rights organisation Amnesty International India had called out the agency’s “constant harassment” for demanding transparency from the government on the alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. The human rights watchdog also said that its bank accounts were frozen – a move that it called a “witch-hunt over unfounded and motivated allegations”.

The Opposition parties have criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party on many occasions for using the Enforcement…

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