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Several Congress leaders did not mind the opportunity presented by the recent Enforcement Directorate notices to party president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul to stir up sympathy for the Family. Braving Delhi’s scorching heat, they hit the streets to protest the alleged harassment of their leaders by government agencies. More drama followed. On June

13, as Rahul was being grilled by the ED, he used the lunch break to visit his mother, who was being treated for Covid in isolation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi. Rahul may have been anxious about his mother but it didn’t stop his detractors from saying that he had probably gone to take dictation for out-of-syllabus questions thrown by the ED.