New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who has been convicted by the Surat court docket for making objectionable remarks towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has categorically rejected the Bharatiya Janata Party`s allegations of Congress occasion “pressurising” the judiciary. Training his weapons on the Centre over the Gautam Adani problem, the previous Congress MP requested, “Who has invested Rs 20,000 crore in the shell companies of Gautam Adani, whose money is that?”
The Congress chief stated this whereas responding to reporters on the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters within the nationwide capital the place he has arrived for the assembly to resolve on the names of the following checklist of occasion candidates for the Karnataka Assembly elections.
Rahul Gandhi Rejects BJP’s Congress ‘Pressurising’ The Judiciary Charge
After reaching the AICC headquarters, Rahul was requested concerning the allegations put up by BJP on Congress`s “pressurising” judiciary, to which he replied, “Why do you always say what BJP is saying…every time you say what BJP is saying”. He additional added, “There is a very simple thing. Who does the Rs 20,000 crore in the shell companies of Adani, belong to? These are benami, whose is it?”
#WATCH | Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi solutions on BJP allegations of “Congress pressurising judiciary” and speaks on Adani row as he arrives on the AICC workplace. pic.twitter.com/U18YTLrkbQ
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This comes after BJP attacked Rahul Gandhi for reaching the court docket together with many occasion leaders accusing it of “pressuring” the judiciary.
Along with him, a number of occasion leaders like DK Shivakumar, Verrappa Moily, Randeep Surjewala, DK Suresh, Priyank Kharge and Mohsina Kidwai additionally reached the AICC headquarters. The elections are slated to be held in Karnataka on May 10, and the counting of votes will happen on May 13.
Earlier on Monday, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi together with a number of senior occasion leaders went to the Gujarat court docket to file an enchantment towards his March 23 conviction in a legal defamation case over his “Modi surname” comment.
He was accompanied by his sister and occasion chief Priyanka Gandhi. Along together with her, the Chief Ministers of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh too got here to the court docket.
The court docket in Gujarat`s Surat granted bail until the disposal of the enchantment to Rahul Gandhi within the defamation case. The former MP from Wayanad was convicted and sentenced to 2 years in hail by the court docket of Chief Judicial Magistrate H H Varma on March 23 in a defamation case over his `Modi surname` comment in 2019 in Karnataka.
The matter pertains to Rahul`s remarks at a rally in Karnataka`s Kolar in April 2019, Rahul, in a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stated, “How come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?”.
Following his conviction, Rahul was disqualified as an MP on March 24, as per a Supreme Court ruling in 2013. Under the ruling, any MP or MLA stands to be disqualified routinely if convicted and sentenced to 2 years or extra.
