Simultaneous raid on 10 locations of Rajasthan Minister of State for Home Rajendra Yadav, created panic

Enforcement Directorate officials on Tuesday conducted searches at several places in Rajasthan, including the residence of state Higher Education Minister Rajendra Singh Yadav, in connection with a money laundering probe. A government official, on condition of anonymity, said that raids are being conducted at about 10 places linked to the minister, his associates and their businesses in Kotputli, Jaipur, Behror and Viratnagar. On September 7 last year, the Income Tax Department had also searched the premises belonging to the minister representing Kotputli in the state assembly.

At that time, 53 premises linked to Rajendra Yadav and his family, including his son Madhur Yadav, were raided in Jaipur, Kotputli, Gurgaon and Uttarakhand. A second official said Tuesday’s raid was related to a case related to irregularities in the mid-day meal scheme, but did not elaborate. It has been alleged that a company headed by him supplied low quality products to schools in 2018.

ED and Yadav have not issued a formal statement on the search. After the income tax raid last year, Yadav had insisted that his family was in the clear. Let them investigate. If there is any political malice in the Income Tax action, that too will come to the fore. It is wrong to link names with political funding. Our work is packaging. We have nothing to do with midday meal. We make packets and packaging alike. We are not responsible for what anyone fills in them.