Nana Patole. File
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Lashing out on the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha, Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Sunday mentioned that if Mr. Gandhi’s assertion calling fugitive businessmen and financial offenders Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi “thieves” was a mistake, then the Congress would repeatedly commit the identical offence in future as nicely.
Wearing black armbands, Maharashtra Congress leaders at present staged a ‘satyagraha’ in protest of Mr. Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha throughout the State.
Fear of publicity
Spearheading the protest in Nagpur, Mr. Patole accused the BJP and PM Modi of being scared that Mr. Gandhi would expose the hyperlinks between the Prime Minister and industrialist Gautam Adani.
“Rahul Gandhi has acted as the voice of the people in questioning Mr. Adani’s ill-gotten gains and the links between him and the PM. So, what was the need for Mr. Modi to overreact when the Congress posed certain questions instead of clearing his stance? Our satyagraha today is to protest the conspiracy hatched by the BJP against Mr. Gandhi,” mentioned Mr. Patole.
Refuting the BJP’s cost that Mr. Gandhi had insulted the OBC Modi neighborhood as “bizarre”, the Congress chief mentioned that Mr. Gandhi had known as Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi as thieves after they’d been declared financial offenders by central companies for misappropriating public cash.
“And why should Rahul Gandhi apologise? In fact, it is the BJP that should apologise to the public for securing votes with their shallow promises and now trying to throttle democracy by suspending Mr. Gandhi. If the BJP does not believe in democracy, it should make it clear to the public given that the law today is applicable only for the Opposition and not the BJP,” he mentioned.
Mocking the BJP, senior Congress chief from Vidarbha, Vijay Wadettiwar mentioned that if the ruling social gathering thought that Mr. Gandhi’s ‘insult’ of the fugitive exiles was an insult to the OBC neighborhood, then Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi have been “very big leaders of OBCs” in view of the BJP.
“Given that the OBC community have been saddened as their leaders have fled the country, we ought to invite them back to India and felicitate them,” quipped Mr. Wadettiwar, remarking that whereas the BJP might have debarred Mr. Gandhi from the Lok Sabha, they may not take away him from the minds of the individuals.
“Given that the OBC community have been saddened as their leaders have fled the country, we ought to invite them back to India and felicitate them”Vijay WadettiwarSenior Congress chief, Vidarbha
