BJP State Spokesperson Sanjay Shrivastav on Monday said that Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and other Congress leaders from different parts of the country are trying to create pressure on the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the apprehension of being exposed in the National Herald case.

Shrivastav said that a company Associated Journal Limited (AJL) was formed in 1930 for the publication of

newspapers with the partnership of 5000 freedom fighters. If this company today functions under Gandhi family in the name of Young Indian Real Estate Business, asked Shrivastav. If this company was formed in 2010 with Rs 5 lakh investment including 75 per cent share of Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. Shrivastav also questioned if the Rs 2000 crore worth property of AJL, constituted by the freedom fighters, was handed over to a family. Shrivastav also questioned the relationship of Young Indian Company, owned by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, with Kolkata based hawala company Dotex Merchandise. Shrivastav alleged that all the shares of AJL were handed over to Young Indian Company in 2010. The Congress had given public money of Rs 90 crore to the Young Indian Company on loan and later exempted the same, said Shrivastav. The company was formed for charitable work but no such work was done till 2016, he alleged. The Delhi High Court in 2019 stated that the entire transaction of transferring the shares of AJL to Young Indian Company was nothing but, a clandestine and surreptitious transfer of the lucrative interest to Young Indian, said Shrivastav. Also present on the occasion were Rajeev Agrawal and Nalineesh Thokne