NEW DELHI: Congress chief Pawan Khera on Sunday apologized for his ‘tapasya’ tweet after not getting a Rajya Sabha nomination from his celebration final yr, saying he did so in “selfishness” however has realized his mistake drawing inspiration from Rahul Gandhi who “shuns power” and continues his ‘tapasya’. Addressing a gathering on the day-long ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ of the Congress on the Rajghat to protest Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha, Khera stated, “If you try to murder democracy, Rahul Gandhi will speak, be it from inside Parliament or outside it.”
“You (BJP) are afraid when Rahul Gandhi takes the name of Adani, you will shiver when he will do so on the streets,” he stated.
आप लोकतंत्र को मारेंगे और सोचेंगे कि चीख भी बाहर न निकले, ऐसे में तो राहुल गांधी बोलेंगे।
आप कायर हैं, डरपोक हैं …हम आपसे नहीं डरते और न राहुल गांधी आपसे डरते हैं।
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— Indian Youth Congress (@IYC) March 26, 2023
Rahul Gandhi belongs to the household that confirmed the nation the best way, Khera stated. Referring to his tweet on May 29 final yr after his title didn’t determine in a listing of celebration’s Rajya Sabha nominees, Khera stated, “I want to apologize to all of you, to my leadership that in selfishness, when I did not get a Rajya Sabha berth, I wrote that ‘shayad meri tapasya mein kuch kami reh gayi’. Now I see Rahul Gandhi that he shuns power and still continues his tapasya, what could be bigger than that.”
“I apologize to all of you today. I have got inspiration from Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi. It is time to fight, to raise one’s voice, power comes or doesn’t, we will fight and win,” Khera advised the gathering with celebration chief Mallikarjun Kharge and different senior leaders on the dais.
Khera was on the centre of a deplaning row lately when he was arrested after being deplaned from an plane and arrested for remarks in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Gandhi was on Thursday sentenced to 2 years in jail by a Surat court docket in a 2019 prison defamation case over his “why all thieves have Modi surname” comment. He was subsequently disqualified from Lok Sabha.
