New Delhi: Congress suffered an enormous setback with Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification as a Lok Sabha MP on Friday (March 24) however the grand previous celebration vowed to “fight” again towards this growth. Congress leaders got here collectively for an pressing assembly on the difficulty in Delhi. Several plans of motion have been floated through the assembly that was chaired by celebration chief Mallikarjun Kharge, in accordance with an ANI report.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who was current on the assembly urged that Congress should concentrate on profitable the Karnataka Assembly polls this yr as a befitting reply to the BJP.
आज AICC मुख्यालय में कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष श्री @kharge जी की अध्यक्षता और CPP चेयरपर्सन श्रीमती सोनिया गांधी जी की मौजूदगी में प्रदेश अध्यक्षों, CLP नेताओं सहित कांग्रेस के वरिष्ठ नेताओं की बैठक हुई। pic.twitter.com/wXD52PlncH
— Congress (@INCIndia) March 24, 2023
According to sources, an MP additionally urged that every one MPs of the Congress can tender mass resignations as a method of protesting towards Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification. What is extra doubtless is the formation of a committee to debate the subsequent plan of action on this matter, as per a supply quoted by ANI.
The emergency assembly included the attendance of the Steering Committee, PCC chiefs, CLP leaders, and chiefs of frontal organisations, departments, and cells on the AICC Office.
Rahul Gandhi, on March 23, was disqualified as a Lok Sabha member after being convicted in a 2019 felony defamation case by a Surat courtroom over his ‘Modi surname’ comment. This resolution was closely criticised by Congress together with different Opposition events. Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh stated that the “party will continue to fight this battle.”
Furthermore, the celebration alleged that the transfer was a “strangulation of democracy”. Congress nationwide spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi stated, “The issue before us is political, more than it is legal. It is a political issue because it signifies the systematic, repetitive emasculation of democratic institutions by the ruling party. It signifies the strangulation of democracy itself.”
“We know that defamation is an exception to free speech, but over the last several years, we have had repeated examples of unthinkable assaults on freedom of speech, more importantly, freedom after speech. We all know that Rahul Gandhi has been speaking fearlessly inside and outside Parliament. He is paying a price for it,” he stated as quoted by ANI.
