Robert Vadra on ED Grilling: “Would’ve Celebrated My Birthday at ED Office if Not for Public Holiday” BJP Hits Back, Demands End to ‘VVIP Treatment

After facing a third day of questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), businessman Robert Vadra on Thursday said that the agency asked him the same set of questions repeatedly.

“There were no new questions — all of them were repeated,” Vadra told reporters after several hours of interrogation. Taking a dig at the agency, he added, “If tomorrow wasn’t a public holiday, I would have ended up celebrating my birthday in the ED office.”

Vadra is being probed in connection with an alleged money laundering case involving a land deal in Manesar-Shikohpur (now Sector 83) in Gurugram. His firm, Skylight Hospitality, had purchased 3.5 acres of land from Onkareshwar Properties for ₹7.5 crore in February 2008. The land was later sold to DLF for ₹58 crore in 2012, during the tenure of the then Congress-led Haryana government under Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

The transaction first came under scrutiny in 2012 when IAS officer Ashok Khemka cancelled the land mutation, citing violations of land consolidation norms. The Haryana Police registered an FIR in 2018, and the ED subsequently launched a money laundering probe.

Officials say Vadra has already been questioned for over ten hours, and the process of recording his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) is ongoing.

Meanwhile, the BJP continues to target the Congress and the Gandhi family over the case. Addressing a press conference, BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said, “If the earnings of the people have been siphoned into the fake Gandhi family’s treasury, then each paisa will be recovered.”

He added that there would be no more “VVIP treatment” for anyone involved in such alleged corruption cases.