India, Dec. 17 -- The Congress on Wednesday said the party workers would hold pan-India protests to expose "vendetta politics" of the Narendra Modi government, citing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) action in the National Herald case.

The move comes a day after a Delhi court ruled that it was impermissible, in law, to take judicial notice of the charge sheet since the prosecution complaint was founded on cognisance of a private complainant and not an FIR in a predicate offence.

"The case over National Herald is nothing but a political vendetta. This newspaper doesn't belong to today. It started in 1938. They are using agencies to defame Congress leaders and the Gandhi family," Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said at a Press confe...