Patna: The motion towards Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is an event for ‘battle, not fright’ and all events against the ruling BJP on the Centre should come collectively ‘at once’, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav mentioned on Thursday. The RJD chief, whose occasion has been a Congress ally for twenty years, was reacting to the conviction of Gandhi by a Gujarat court docket in a defamation case. “Yeh darne ka nahin, ladne ka waqt hai (It’s the time to fight, not fright)”, Yadav mentioned. He mentioned he is not going to touch upon the court docket order however the folks of the nation are understanding the explanation behind the therapy being meted out to Gandhi.
He recalled that his father Lalu Prasad, the RJD president, “has been saying since 2014 that the country is passing through a phase of an undeclared Emergency” whereby all folks, be they of any political orientation and concerned in any occupation, face persecution in the event that they criticise the regime.
चक्रव्यूह रच विपक्षी नेताओं पर ED,IT, CBI से दबिश करवाओ फिर भी बात ना बने तो घिनौने षडयंत्र के अंतर्गत विभिन्न शहरों में आधारहीन मुकदमे करवाओ ताकि हैडलाइन मैनेजमेंट में कोई कोर कसर ना रह जाए। यह संविधान, लोकतंत्र, राजनीति और देश के लिए अतिगंभीर चिंता का विषय है।#RahulGandhi
— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) March 23, 2023
The younger RJD chief, who has been on the radar of central companies like CBI and ED, nonetheless, claimed that it was turning into evident that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had grown ‘nervous’ on the prospect of dealing with the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
“These people are hell bent upon destroying the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar. The demonetisation was a huge scam and if he (Modi) returns to power, democracy and Constitution will be finished and we will see his photographs on currency notes instead of Mahatma Gandhi,” alleged Yadav.
“We are now witnessing vendetta against political opponents on a scale that has never been witnessed. Similar concerns were recently expressed by Akhilesh Yadav,” mentioned the RJD chief who shares household ties with the Samajwadi Party president.
All events against the present dispensation ideologically should unite at once, Yadav mentioned.
“Today is the date when Bhagat Singh attained martyrdom. I had joined Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in paying tributes to the legendary revolutionary. In the face of what is happening today, the need of the hour is to fight and not fright”, he mentioned with a rhetorical flourish.
A court docket in Surat in Gujarat on Thursday sentenced Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to 2 years in jail in a 2019 legal defamation case filed towards him over his “why all thieves have Modi surname” remarks.
The court docket additionally granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to permit him to enchantment in the next court docket.
