The Congress has refuted any affiliation with Tushar Goyal, the purported drug lord responsible for the largest drug bust in Delhi. This drug bust in Delhi has sparked significant controversy, prompting the party to clarify its position regarding any connections to the incident. The primary culprit, Tushar Goyal, was taken into custody after a search in south Delhi on Wednesday yielded over 500 kilograms of cocaine and 40 kg of hydroponic marijuana valued at over Rs 5,600 crore.

The Youth Congress criticised the BJP on Thursday by requesting that it "Stop misleading the country on the basis of lies and deception" in a post on X. "Stop misleading the country on the basis of lies and deception, because this is a crime under the law and @IYCLegalCell will soon give a legal answer to it", the Youth Congress post on X said.

The Youth Congress refuted the claims made by the BJP, which suggested that Goyal was connected to the traditional party.

"Drugs worth Rs 5,600 crore have been recovered from Delhi. The main accused in this case is Tushar Goyal, who is the chief of the RTI cell of the Indian Youth Congress. This means that it is becoming clear that till now only goods of hatred were visible in Rahul Gandhi's shop of love, but now drugs are also being found. What is the connection of Congress with the drugs recovered and the accused? - Dr. @SudhanshuTrived", the BJP had posted on X.

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However, the Youth Congress further accused the saffron party of "hiding certain facts". Its post on X went on to add, "Criminal Tushar Goyal was removed from the Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress RTI department in October 2022 itself due to anti-party activities. After 17 October 2022, the said Tushar Goyal has never been associated with the Youth Congress organisation in any capacity".

The party cited the information released in the media quoting Delhi Police, saying "Tushar Goyal himself has admitted that he was never associated with the Youth Congress after 2021-22, which makes it clear that BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi and BJP IT CELL, through a press conference, while hiding the facts, described him as a current office bearer of the Youth Congress, which is clearly a frustrated attempt to tarnish the image of the Indian Youth Congress organisation, against which we are bound to take legal action".

The Youth Congress remarked that while BJP showed the alleged photos of the criminal with Congress leaders, BJP purposefully concealed the photos of Tushar Goyal with BJP leaders, indicating that the whole thing was made up before of the Haryana elections.

Bringing up the fact that the Delhi Police is an agency of the Central government, the party demanded that it punish "the criminal" as severely as possible and refrain from conducting this phony campaign based on incomplete and biased information. "Because our organisation never defends criminals like rapist Brij Bhushan like you people" , the Congress stated.

Earlier, a huge scandal emerged after Goyal, 40, allegedly revealed during interrogation that he had served as the chairman of the RTI cell for Delhi Pradesh Congress till 2022. Investigators also found that Goyal listed his position as RTI Cell Chairman, Delhi Pradesh Congress, on a social media page.

Goyal shared pictures of himself with a number of well-known Congressmen on social media, including Haryana unit president Uday Bhan and Lok Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda. Goyal went under the handle "Dikki Goyal" on these platforms.

In addition, he was photographed alongside Ghulam Nabi Azad, the previous leader of the Congress, and Anil Jain, the head of the Haryana BJP, before to the latter's departure.

In relation to the significant drug seizure, Goyal was detained together with three other people: Himanshu Kumar, Bharat Kumar Jain, and Aurangzeb Siddiqui, who were also from Delhi.

The cocaine was brought into Delhi by road from several states, while the marijuana came from Phuket, Thailand, according to the authorities. The defendants reportedly concealed themselves from law enforcement by using cryptocurrencies.

Insiders with knowledge of the inquiry have suggested that a well-known businessman from Dubai is responsible for the cocaine shipment, which authorities think was intended for well-known events in the main city.

“The kingpin of the drug cartel has been running his operations in India from a West Asian country,” a senior Delhi Police officer said, adding that efforts are on to track down and arrest all suspects involved in the drug syndicate.

The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act's pertinent provisions have been registered for the case, and investigations into the larger network that was responsible for the historic drug bust are ongoing.

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