Bhubaneswar, April 16 -- Amid ongoing ruckus over the ED filing a prosecution complaint against Sonia and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case, Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday asserted that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) must be "abolished" since departments including Income Tax already exist to tackle economic offences.

"In my understanding, a department like ED must be abolished. I will ask Congress to ask for the same thing. There are several institutions that look into economic offences. Having ED means that you are not even trusting your own organisations like the Income Tax department or GST," Yadav, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, said in a press conference.

He stated that many parties had o...