TURNING the heat on the ruling Congress in poll-bound Rajasthan, the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday raided the premises of State Congress President Govind Singh Dotasra in Jaipur and Sikar as part of a money laundering probe into the alleged exam paper leak case and summoned Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s son in a foreign exchange violation case.

 

Besides the premises of the 59-year-old Dotasra, a former Minister for school education, the agency is also searching the premises of a party candidate from Mahua seat in Dausa, Omprakash Hudla, and some others, official sources said.

The raids are being undertaken under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). An armed escort of central paramilitary force CRPF accompanied the ED teams.

 

The Congress slammed the Centre over the ED’s action against its leaders in Rajasthan and accused Prime Minister Modi of taking the help of probe agencies in fighting polls, and said people would give the BJP a befitting reply. Chief Minister Gehlot flayed the ED action, saying terror has been unleashed in the country. He alleged the BJP was targeting him through ED raids as they could not topple his Government. Elections for the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly will be held on November 25. The results will be declared on December 3. Dotasra is the party candidate from Lacchmangarh seat of Sikar against BJP’s Subhash Maharia. He is also the sitting MLA from this seat while Hudla is an independent MLA and the Congress has fielded him from the Mahua Assembly seat this time.