`New Delhi: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday lashed out at Rahul Gandhi who was disqualified as Lok Sabha MP just lately, and stated that the Congress chief ought to combat the “court`s action in the court” as an alternative of talking towards Veer Savarkar.”You are getting an ass to run a horse`s race…They really deserve to do some serious introspection…People of India would judge them for what they are…Fight Court`s action in the Court, you are invoking Mahabharat and Savarkar,” Puri stated.
#WATCH | On Opposition’s protest over disqualification of Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri says, “…You are getting an ass to run a horse’s race…They really deserve to do some serious introspection…People of India would judge them for what they are…Fight… pic.twitter.com/2Yjq3ybcWG
— ANI (@ANI) March 27, 2023
On Friday, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha, a day after a Surat court docket sentenced him to 2 years imprisonment in a defamation case filed towards him over his `Modi surname` comment.
In April 2019, he made the comment “how come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname” at a Lok Sabha election rally at Kolar in Karnataka. The court docket accepted Rahul Gandhi`s bail on a surety and stayed the sentence for 30 days to permit him to strategy the upper courts.
After his disqualification, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated that he was not Veer Savarkar and that he is not going to apologize. Addressing a press convention within the nationwide capital a day after he was convicted in a defamation case and subsequently disqualified from Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi stated on Saturday “My title will not be Savarkar, my title is Gandhi. Gandhis don`t apologize to anybody.
“He additional acknowledged that he’s not terrified of going to jail and that his disqualification from Parliament was aimed toward distracting folks from the Adani concern. Meanwhile, Congress MPs within the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha as we speak attended the Parliament session by carrying black garments.
Besides Rahul Gandhi`s disqualification, the Congress has because the begin of the Budget session of Parliament been registering their protest over the Adani-Hindbenburg concern and questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s relation with the Adani Group.
Congress had demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the Adani concern and staged protests within the Parliament`s ongoing Budget Session. The ongoing second a part of the Budget Session started on March 13 and can proceed until April 6.
