New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate today has conducted raids at properties linked with Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Kumar Mittal, days after he was appointed deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha.Mittal had replaced Raghav Chadha in his parliament role.Among the sites being raided, according to reports, is the campus of the Lovely Professional University in Phagwara of Punjab. Mittal is the owner of the Lovely Group and the founder and chancellor of the university. His brothers Ramesh and Naresh are co-owners of the university.Mittal, one of AAP’s 10 MPs, was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2022. He is a part of the Defence and Finance parliamentary committees.The directorate has not officially said why Mittal is now being raided. “The federal agency has sought no assistance from the local police,” an unnamed official is quoted as having told Hindustan Times.Last year, the Union government of the Bharatiya Janata Party – which controls the Enforcement Directorate – said in parliament that in the more than 190 Enforcement Directorate cases against political leaders in the last 10 years, only two have resulted in conviction.Leaders of the AAP, which is in opposition to the BJP, have been a common target of the economic intelligence and law enforcement agency.Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote on X: “Modi ji has started preparations for the elections in Punjab. But the people of Punjab will not tolerate this. They will give a befitting reply to the BJP.”Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, also from AAP, wrote: “ED raids at the home and university of AAP Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Mittal..typical Modi style…”Two days ago, the Enforcement Directorate on April 13 arrested Vinesh Chandel, the director of I-PAC, the poll consultancy firming advising another opposition party Trinamool Congress, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in connection with a coal pilferage case in West Bengal. Bengal will go to polls on April 23 and 29.