Enforcement Directorate | How Congress & BJP shaped it into a Deadly Tool | Akash Banerjee The DeshBhakt With Akash Banerjee

Prevention of Money Laundering Act - A law that was brought in to hack illegal drug trafficking, money laundering & to put a stop to legitimising Black Money has gradually moved on from being a law to a political tool in the hands of the ruling government…be it Congress who politisized it - to BJP that weaponised it. 



A brilliant article in Scroll - https://scroll.in/article/1027571/how-the-modi-government-has-weaponised-the-ed-to-go-after-indias-opposition  - highlights how in the ED has become a force to reckon with & a weapon to intimidate the opposition by the party in power - be in Congress or the BJP. 



Do watch the episode to understand how powerful ED has become after the 2019 amendment & to understand if the PMLA stands constitutionally correct ?



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Chapter Heads :



00:00 - ED a political tool ?

02:40 - Mahapolitics & role of ED

04:04 - What is money laundering Act?

05:08 - From Drugs to Politics 

07:39 - A political witch-hunt?

09:36 - How Congress weaponised ED

11:01 - How BJP added a nuclear tip

11:51 - IS PMLA constitutional?



Credits :

Writer : Akash

Editor : Shivam

Producer: Avishrant



Resources : 



https://scroll.in/article/1027571/how-the-modi-government-has-weaponised-the-ed-to-go-after-indias-opposition 



https://indianexpress.com/article/india/enforcement-directorate-p-chidambaram-inx-media-case-d-k-shivakumar-5975982/ 



https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/nawab-malik-money-laundering-case-transaction-dawood-ibrahim-bombay-high-court-1922364-2022-03-08  



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