RAIPUR: The Congress on Thursday issued a press release condemning the arrest of its spokesperson Pawan Khera as ‘Arbitrary, Dictatorial and Cowardly’ and mentioned that the occasion will proceed to nook Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his alleged hyperlinks with industrialist Gautam Adani. “Pawan Khera’s arrest was arbitrary, dictatorial and yet another cowardly attempt to derail 85th AICC Plenary in Raipur…BJP is totally misguided if it believes that such laughable intimidation tactics are going to dissuade us from exposing its corruption and misgovernance,” occasion basic secretary KC Venugopal mentioned.
#Pawan_Khera‘s arrest was arbitrary&dictatorial&one more cowardly try to derail eighty fifth AICC Plenary in Raipur…BJP completely misguided if it believes that such laughable intimidation techniques are going to dissuade us from exposing its corruption & misgovernance: KC Venugopal pic.twitter.com/WzPPztLIOK
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Further attacking the Centre, the principle opposition occasion mentioned that “Khera was arrested because Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scared of being questioned on his relationship with Gautam Adani.”
Ahead of the eighty fifth AICC Plenary in Raipur, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the arrest of Khera and alleged that democracy and Constitution have been underneath menace within the saffron occasion’s regime. He was speaking to reporters at Swami Vivekanand Airport Raipur after his arrival right here to attend the Congress’s eighty fifth plenary session starting Friday.
“The BJP has been harassing our party leaders and workers, particularly our spokesperson Khera ji. Assam police arrested Khera ji. There is no such provision in the law. I am happy that the Supreme Court granted bail. It was a slap on BJP,” Kharge mentioned.
“It is totally condemnable the way they are doing these things. We are all going to Raipur for the plenary session, Pawan Khera was also travelling with us, suddenly they deplaned Pawan Khera without any valid reason,” Venugopal additionally earlier mentioned.
Later after reaching Raipur for the three-day plenary, beginning Friday, Venugopal issued a press release and mentioned Khera was arrested on completely “baseless charges, which were only trumped up because Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scared of being questioned on his relationship with Gautam Adani”. He thanked the Supreme Court for being the voice of motive in these testing occasions.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered to grant interim bail to Khera until February 28 within the case. “This charade is not going to deter us from raising questions about the manner in which the Modi government has systematically favoured the Adani group and is conspicuously silent on allegations of stock rigging, overvaluation and benami money being pushed through a web of shell companies against the Adani Group of companies,” he alleged.
“Khera’s arrest was arbitrary and dictatorial and yet another cowardly attempt to derail the 85th AICC Plenary being held in Raipur,” Venugopal alleged. The Enforcement Directorate raided Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh, clearly timed to “intimidate” the occasion’s Chhattisgarh unit in the course of the essential strategy planning stage of the plenary, he mentioned.
“However, the BJP is totally misguided if it believes that such laughable intimidation tactics are going to dissuade us from exposing its corruption and misgovernance,” he mentioned. Venugopal mentioned Khera is among the most articulate voices of the occasion, who has constantly opposed and questioned the flawed insurance policies and divisive agenda of the Modi authorities.
“We stand with Khera and strongly denounce the high-handedness of the government,” he mentioned. The ‘Haath Se Haath Jodo’ plenary will give a brand new imaginative and prescient to the nation and begin the countdown for the top of BJP’s misrule on the Centre, Venugopal mentioned. “We are all geared up for this historic occasion, and no force can stop us from our mission,” the Congress basic secretary mentioned.
Khera was on Thursday stopped on the Delhi airport from flying to Raipur to attend the occasion’s plenary session and was arrested quickly after by the Assam Police in reference to an FIR over his alleged derogatory remarks towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Supreme Court, nonetheless, supplied him aid by releasing him on interim bail until February 28.
