Rahul Gandhi Disqualified: The grand previous celebration on Friday left appalled as Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as a member of Lok Sabha. An enormous shocker for Congress got here a day after a Surat court docket convicted Rahul Gandhi within the 2019 ‘Modi surname’ defamation case. Soon after the Lok Sabha Secretariat introduced the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi, Congress accused BJP of doing “vindictive politics” and appearing with “lightning speed” in disqualifying him.
Congress claimed to launch “Jan Andolan”
Congress of Friday alleged that the ruling dispensation is popping out with new techniques to “gag” Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. The celebration management received right into a huddle quickly after the disqualification was introduced by the Lok Sabha Secretariat and determined to combat it legally and politically and launch a national “Jan Andolan” beginning Monday.
Congress earlier staged a protest
The Congress additionally welcomed statements of assist by opposition leaders and mentioned Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge has been coordinating with varied events in Parliament and this coordination will be prolonged exterior Parliament as effectively. Party MPs earlier staged a protest march until Vijay Chowk and a number of other MPs had been detained by the Delhi Police for violation of prohibitory orders and stored on the Kingsway Camp police station earlier than being launched within the night.
Rahul Gandhi’s first response
In his first response after the disqualification, Rahul Gandhi in a tweet mentioned, “I am fighting for the voice of India. I am ready to pay any price.” His sister and Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra launched an all-out assault on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying in a tweet in Hindi, “Narendra Modi ji, your sycophants called the son of a martyred prime Minister a traitor, Mir Jafar. One of your Chief Ministers raised questions as to who is the father of Rahul Gandhi? Following the custom of Kashmiri Pandits, a son wears ‘pagdi’ after his father’s death, maintaining his family’s tradition.” “Insulting the whole family and the Kashmiri Pandit community, you asked in Parliament why we don’t keep the name, Nehru. But no judge gave you a sentence of two years. Did not disqualify you from the Parliament,” she mentioned.
Addressing a press convention on the AICC headquarters, celebration spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioned the problem of Gandhi’s disqualification was each political and authorized. “It is a political issue because it signifies the systematic and repetitive emasculation of democratic institutions by the ruling party and the strangulation of democracy itself.”
“Rahul Gandhi is praying the price”
He alleged there have been “unthinkable assaults” on the liberty of speech with individuals being informed that they’d face the worst attainable penalties — civil, legal, incarceration, intimidation and harassment. “We all know Rahul Gandhi has been speaking inside and outside Parliament fearlessly. He has spoken on social issues, economic issues, political issues without any fear or inhibition…clearly he is paying the price for it,” Singhvi mentioned.
“Centre finding new techniques to gag Rahul Gandhi”
“This government is finding new techniques of throttling his voice, gagging him. Rahul Gandhi goes abroad, he is not allowed to speak on grounds of fake nationalism,” he alleged, including, “This is a conspiracy by the BJP against him.” After the meet, Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh informed reporters that the celebration has determined to launch a individuals’s motion, and alleged that the federal government has acted with lightning pace to “gag” him.
(with inputs from PTI)
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