New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet against Lok Sabha leader of opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi as well as Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sonia Gandhi on money laundering charges in the National Herald case and a Delhi court has posted the matter for further proceedings next week.The financial crimes agency filed the chargesheet on April 9 and also named Congress overseas wing chief Sam Pitroda as well as Suman Dubey as accused, PTI reported.Judge Vishal Gogne of a special court for cases against legislators said on Tuesday (April 15) said the matter would be taken up for consideration “on the aspect of cognisance” on April 25.Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday that the chargesheet was “nothing but the politics of vendetta and intimidation by the PM [prime minister] and the HM [home minister] gone completely berserk”.“The INC [Congress] and its leadership will not be silenced. Satyameva Jayate,” he said on X.Party leader K.C. Venugopal also announced that the Congress will “organise nationwide protests” involving legislators and party workers in front of the ED’s offices.The ED filed its chargesheet on the day the grand old party concluded its two-day All India Congress Committee meeting in Ahmedabad, where it adopted a resolution in an attempt to rehaul its organisation and sharpen its otherwise broad-stroked attack against the BJP.As The Wire has reported, the National Herald is an English newspaper which was started by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, along with a company called the Associated Journals Limited (AJL), which used to publish the Herald.Post independence, the National Herald was known for supporting the Congress.On Saturday the ED announced it had issued notices as part of its process to take over properties it had attached in the “AJL money laundering case” in Delhi, Mumbai and Lucknow.It also served notice to Jindal South West Projects Limited, which occupies the seventh, eighth and ninth floors of the Herald House building in Mumbai, asking it to transfer its monthly rent to the ED.On November 1, 2012, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy filed a case against the Gandhi family alleging that they used party funds to purchase the company that published the National Herald.In his complaint before a trial court in Delhi, he said that the Gandhi family committed fraud and grabbed land worth thousands of crores.He further claimed that the Gandhis “fraudulently acquired properties of AJL in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and other places worth Rs 1,600 crore” through the private company Young Indian Ltd, which they owned.The ED then registered a case in 2021 to interrogate alleged financial irregularities at Young Indian under the PMLA.This came as a result of a trial court taking cognisance of an income tax department probe against Young Indian on the basis of Swamy’s complaint.“Neither Sonia Gandhi nor Rahul Gandhi nor anybody else … they don’t own the property. I mean, it’s set in law” that shareholders do not own properties as opposed to the company. “So what’s the offence? … You want to paralyse the Congress party, take possession of all the properties so that they cannot function … This is an assault on democracy,” Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal had said on Sunday.