In an unique dialog with India TV, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday spoke on a variety of political points, together with the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Parliament.
Gehlot alleged that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha below a conspiracy hatched by the Bharatiya Janta Party because the saffron occasion feared the rise in his recognition after Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Gandhi was disqualified as a Lok Sabha member on March 24, a day after he was sentenced to 2 years in jail by a Surat courtroom in a 2019 legal defamation case.
“Rahul Gandhi’s membership of parliament was terminated. This was done under a conspiracy,” Gehlot stated.
When requested the disqualification was a fallout of the courtroom order, how it may be a conspiracy? He defined, “Look at the chronology, first they (BJP leaders) demanded his apology when Gandhi said he will reply in the Parliament, he was denied to speak in the House as the ruling party created a ruckus and he went to request to the Speaker but to no avail, his words expunged in the Parliament, the mic was muted. He was given a sentence of two years. This was unprecedented. No one gets two years sentence in similar cases ever. What do these sequences suggest?”
Claiming that the success of Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ frightened the BJP leaders, Gehlot reiterated that democracy is below risk and nobody is aware of during which path India is heading.
“Indian democracy is moving towards one-party rule which is not a good sign for the coming generation. Narendra Modi is PM today because of the democratic process, I’m also CM because of the same, so democracy must be protected,” he elaborated.
OBC row
Defending Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Modi’ remark, Gehlot stated he had no intention to insult Prime Minister Narendra Modi and actually, Gandhi is the one who hugged PM Modi.
“There is no point to insult OBCs. I also belong to the OBC community,” he asserted.
“Look at what happened in West Bengal, Bihar and Maharashtra on Ram Navami. There is fear among people in the country and communal harmony is in danger. In Punjab, Amritpal Singh led group is demanding a Sikh nation in the line with some BJP leaders’ demand for ‘Hindu Rashtra’. It is very dangerous and stringent action must be taken into the matter.”
