India, April 16 -- Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) should be dismantled, arguing that several institutions already exist to investigate economic offences.

Yadav, who is on a two-day visit to Odisha's Bhubaneswar, said the Congress party had "created ED, and is now in trouble because of the same organisation." This comes a day after the ED filed chargesheet against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others in connection with alleged money laundering in the National Herald case.

"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 l...