New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- Former Union Minister Kapil Sibal said on Saturday accused the government of misusing the Enforcement Directorate to "harass opposition leaders" and said it reaches a state "when elections are there".

Sibal, MP, who was interacting with the media, referred to the ED search at the I-PAC office in Kolkata and said, "the ED only reaches when the elections are there".

He also compared the ED's functioning under the Congress-led UPA government, when he was a union minister, and under the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government.

"This morning, I was reminded of the UPA's tenure, from 2004 to 2014. The kind of news stories that are circulating in the newspapers today we didn't see during those 10 years because we...