Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday flipped the BJP`s pitch towards Rahul Gandhi, announcing Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP’s caustic assaults towards the Gandhi own circle of relatives and insulted his Kashmiri Pandit lineage.
Calling Rahul Gandhi the “son of a martyr”, his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stated the BJP insulted him each day, now no longer even sparing their Nehru-Gandhi own circle of relatives, because the Congress held an afternoon-lengthy demonstration throughout the u . s . a . these days to protest his disqualification from the Lok Sabha.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the birthday birthday celebration fashionable secretary, and Mr Kharge, the Congress chief, led a “satyagraha” out of doors Delhi’s Raj Ghat after their protest request on the Mahatma Gandhi memorial became grew to become down with the aid of using the police.
“You name my brother, the son of a martyr, a traitor and Mir Jafar. You insult his mom. Your Chief Minister says Rahul Gandhi does not realize who his mom is. You insult my own circle of relatives each day. But no instances are filed,” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stated.
“Your Prime Minister, in a parliament complete of people, says ‘why does not this own circle of relatives use the call Nehru call’. He insults the entire own circle of relatives of Kashmiri Pandits, and the custom of a son sporting ahead the own circle of relatives’s call after the demise of his father,” she stated.
Countering the BJP’s efforts to invoice Mr Gandhi’s observation which caused his defamation conviction and parliament disqualification as an insult to the Other Backward Class (OBC) community, Mr Kharge stated, “Is Nirav Modi OBC? Is Mehul Choksi OBC? Is Lalit Modi OBC? They are fugitives.”
“Rahul Gandhi simplest raised the difficulty of those fugitives fleeing with black money. The Congress will maintain loads of such protests throughout the u . s . a .. We will combat to keep Freedom of Speech. I thank all competition events for status with Rahul Gandhi,” he stated.
Top birthday birthday celebration leaders P Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh, Salman Khursheed, Pramod Tiwari, Ajay Maken, Mukul Wasnik and Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary, had been additionally visible on the protest. Delhi Police maintained a decent vigil withinside the place and banned massive gatherings round Raj Ghat.
The Congress known as Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification a “conspiracy” to silence the leader, who has been dogged in his assaults on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has been the de facto head of the principle competition birthday birthday celebration for almost a decade.
A combative Rahul Gandhi the previous day hit out on the Prime Minister over his disqualification and used a VD Savarkar reference to reply why he failed to apologise over his feedback in London and throughout the defamation trial wherein he became convicted.
“I had been disqualified because the Prime Minister is terrified of my subsequent speech. I actually have visible worry in his eyes. That’s why they do not need me to talk withinside the Parliament,” stated the Congress leader.
“My call isn’t always Savarkar. I am a Gandhi. I might not apologise,” he stated, relating to the right-wing ideologue who apologised to the British throughout the Independence motion after being jailed.
Mr Gandhi became disqualified on Friday, an afternoon after he became discovered responsible of defamation with the aid of using a courtroom docket in Gujarat for a 2019 marketing campaign path observation visible as insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and billed with the aid of using the BJP as one which degraded the whole Modi community.
The courtroom docket additionally granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to permit him to attraction to a better courtroom docket. His attorneys vowed to attraction the decision in a better courtroom docket.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat additionally declared his constituency in Kerala’s Wayanad vacant. The Election Commission can now announce a unique election for the seat.
The conviction and sentencing additionally bar him from contesting polls for 8 years except a better courtroom docket overrules it.
