NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday stated the sequence of occasions related with Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha unfolded with the pace of a “bullet train” and alleged that the BJP expects him to “apologise” to “people who have run away” after taking individuals’s cash from India. Addressing a press convention on the Rajiv Bhawan right here, Congress media and publicity division chairperson Pawan Khera stated in the previous few days, a “tsunami of support” has come up on Twitter, with many individuals providing their properties to Gandhi as “he lives in our hearts” and the federal government doesn’t want to fret about his residence.
A discover to Gandhi to vacate the 12, Tughlaq Lane bungalow was served by the Housing Committee of Lok Sabha following his disqualification final week after a Surat court docket convicted and sentenced him to 2 years imprisonment in a 2019 prison defamation case over his “Modi surname” comment.
Khera stated the get together’s marketing campaign looking for solutions within the Adani subject will proceed with vigour, and “our party leader will not apologise to anyone, whatever may be the consequences”.
The Congress on Thursday had used embattled IPL founder Lalit Modi’s tweets threatening to take Gandhi to court docket to assault the BJP and stated “global scamsters” had been now coming to the defence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Launching a contemporary salvo on the BJP, Khera stated, “first big extracts from his (Gandhi’s) speech in Parliament were expunged, and then he was not allowed to come into Parliament, and conditions were kept that if he will come, he would have to apologise first”.
He requested, “Apology for what? For a comment that he didn’t make, and they alleged that he insulted the country.” “The challenges facing democracy in India, to discuss that with Indian students studying abroad, what is wrong with that? Democracy get strengthened through dialogue,” Khera stated.
He stated when an award is given by a international nation, then they carry that “certification from abroad” and go about it, then they (BJP) do not say as to why a international certification is required. But, if it has been stated overseas that there are challenges to democracy then they get offended, the Congress chief stated.
Without naming any chief, Khera stated when he stated how individuals earlier used to really feel ashamed to have been born in India, then was it not an insult to the nation in international land.
Khera stated on February 7, Gandhi gave a speech in Parliament on the Adani subject, and put forth his view and requested questions.
“Within nine days, comes a defamation case, on which the petitioner himself had sought a stay earlier. He runs to the court to get his stay vacated. And, hearing begins again in a Surat court, and seven hearings take place in 20 days. Bullet train! And, then punishment is pronounced. Within 24-hour of the sentence, he (Gandhi) is disqualified from Lok Sabha,” Khera stated.
“And, even 24 hours had not elapsed after the disqualification, a letter comes on cancellation of allotment of his government bungalow. This is called bullet train. In matters related to Adani, everything is happening like a bullet train,” he alleged.
The Congress has been accusing the BJP and Prime Minister Modi of helping the enterprise group in getting tasks in its favour, a cost denied by the ruling get together.
Khera alleged that the aim of the chain of occasions surrounding Gandhi’s disqualification is to “save Adani”.
“And, it is being expected from us that we apologise to Nirav Modi, we apologise to Mehul Choksi. Rahul Gandhi had taken name of 3-4 such people, during his speech in Karnataka — Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi, Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya,” he claimed.
“My leader will not apologise to these friends of yours, who have absconded after taking money of this country,” Khera alleged.
“My leader didn’t apologise… One of them have even threatened to file a case in London. This has come to our democracy. See, who are coming in defence of the PM,” he requested.
Khera claimed that the BJP is “anxious” after the “success of the Bharat Jodo Yatra”, and the best way Gandhi is elevating questions.
“We will not apologise to your friends who have run away after taking people’s money, whatever may be the consequences,” the Congress chief stated.
The Opposition get together has been relentlessly attacking the BJP for allegedly permitting financial offenders comparable to Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi and Mehul Choksi get away and flee overseas with individuals’s cash.
In a sequence of tweets on Thursday, Lalit Modi stated, “I see just about every Tom, Dick and Gandhi associates again and again saying I am a fugitive of justice. Why? How? and when was I…Convicted of same.”
“Unlike #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an ordinary citizen saying it and it seems one and all opposition leaders have nothing else to do so they too are either ill-informed or just vendetta prone. I have decided to take the @RahulGandhi…To court in UK right away. I am sure he will have to come up with some solid evidence. I look forward to seeing him make a complete fool of himself,” he had tweeted.
Asked about their marketing campaign, Khera stated that “we will seek answers, we will reiterate our demand for a JPC (joint parliamentary committee probe into the Adani issue)… Raise voices from streets if not allowed to speak in Parliament”.
“Rallies will continue and even Rahul ji has an event in Karnataka at the place where he had made the speech in 2019,” he stated.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat disqualified Gandhi as MP from Wayanad in Kerala after his conviction within the case for his comment.
Asked in regards to the OBC subject hooked up with Gandhi’s feedback, Khera stated people who find themselves “equating these ‘thieves as OBC’ are dishonouring the OBC community”.
Asked in regards to the reactions on his tweet on Lord Ram on Ram Navami, the senior Congress chief stated, “Did I mention Rahul Gandhi in my tweet? And, if some people are ‘equating’ Lord Ram’s mention in my tweet with Rahul Gandhi, can they tell who are the ‘Rakhsash’ (the evil)”.
On the violence in elements of West Bengal on Ram Navami day, he alleged, “It is a toolkit of those in power at the Centre to ensure that there is a slow burner communalism constantly activated in the country”.
“We condemn the violence and and request the state government and expect from the central government to ensure peace is restored and such divisive politics is stopped,” Khera stated.
Asked about Prime Minister Modi’s go to to the brand new Parliament constructing on Thursday, he dubbed the infrastructure undertaking a “vanity project”.
