Sehore Businessman's Suicide: Rahul Gandhi To Speak To Mourning Children Via Phone Call On December 14

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A day after the death of the businessman Manoj Parmar and his wife Neha in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi will speak to their mourning children on Saturday afternoon. 

The announcement was made by former minister and Congress media chairman Mukesh Nayak. 

The businessman and his wife allegedly hanged themselves in Ashta of Sehore district on Friday after being allegedly harassed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for a long time. The recent raid was executed at four of their premises on December 5.

‘A state-sponsored murder’: PCC Chief Jitu Patwari

State Congress president Jitu Patwari and former chief minister Digvijay Singh said the couple’s children had gifted their piggybank to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during his ‘Bharat Jodo (Nyaya) Yatra’. 

Patwari, who visited Parmar’s family, termed the deaths as ‘state-sponsored murder’. He also claimed that the children of the couple alleged that the ED officials had taken away Rs 10 lakh and jewellery without giving any receipt. He asked the police to register a case against the ED officials for abetting suicide. Former chief minister Digvijaya Singh also levelled similar charges against the ED.

‘Vulture-like character of Congressmen’: MLA Bhagwandas Sabnani 

BJP MLA Bhagwandas Sabnani condemned the Congress’s allegations and accused the grand old party of playing politics over death.

“Doing politics over death is a vulture-like character of Congressmen,” he said, adding that suicide of anyone is sad, but Congressmen misuse it only to further their personal interests.

“Before making baseless allegations, both Singh, Patwari and other Congressmen should know the case history," he concluded. 

The incident has sparked a sharp exchange between the opposition Congress and ruling BJP. The Congress claimed that the Parmars were supporters of the party and the ED was harassing them over their political leanings. 

₹6 crore were withdrawn and invested in property :ED

The ED Bhopal zonal office had carried out search operations on the residential and office premises of the Parmars in Sehore and Indore districts in connection with a money-laundering case on December 5.

The ED launched an investigation on an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the Parmars and a senior branch manager of a national bank.

The ED has alleged that loans worth nearly Rs 6 crore were availed under the Pradhan Mantri Employment Generation Programme and Chief Minister Yuva Udyami Yojana but the funds were diverted to proprietorship firms and were subsequently withdrawn in cash for investment in properties. 

Bizman requested Gandhi to protect their children

Manoj Parmar had written a six-page suicide note in which he had named a few officers and mentioned their behaviour during the raid. He stated that the ED officials had targeted them because they are supporting the Congress. He also requested Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and the party to save their children and not to leave their children alone.