Spokespersons: Shri Jairam Ramesh and Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi: Shri Jairam Ramesh addressed the gathering and said that for the last two days you have been seeing that politics of revenge, politics of persecution and politics of intimidation and threats are going on in Karnataka. Our non-biological Prime Minister has not been able to digest the fact till now that in May 2023, the people of Karnataka defeated BJP with a huge majority. This is the background of ED summons.

Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the aim of bringing the ED genie out of the bottle is only one - to intimidate the Congress government and Siddaramaiah. BJP is making institutions a curse for democracy.

But it is very clear that the ED is now playing, hitting and trying utmost to go below the belt, to browbeat, to bulldoze and to bully an elected Congress government, an elected CM.I have had the privilege of saying from here, the ED is nothing, but the Election Department of the BJP.

In the collective cases of ED, there are less political cases. Out of the political cases, how many are against the opposition and how many are against the ruling party. You will find the figure that 95% plus is against the opposition. In that category where politics is involved, where corporate is involved, this issue does not arise at all.