New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi tore into Prime Minister Narendra Modi an afternoon after he become disqualified from parliament. His disqualification got here following his conviction and prison sentence in a defamation case stemming from a 2019 commentary implying PM Modi become a criminal. Mr Gandhi`s Wayanad seat has additionally fell vacant after his disqualification. He has been granted bail and his sentence suspended for 30 days to allow him enchantment his conviction.
Rahul disqualification an 'personal goal' through BJP: Shashi Tharoor
“This has ended in some accidental results for the BJP. In each capital, there are headlines approximately what has befell to Rahul Gandhi. Secondly, they have got additionally created a stage of competition team spirit that did now no longer exist before," Tharoor instructed PTI.
“Rahul Gandhi lied once more that he did not say whatever in London. In London, he stated that democracy in India has emerge as susceptible and European international locations aren't listening to it. Lying has emerge as a nature of Rahul Gandhi”, Prasad stated.
“Rahul Gandhi had complained that his telecellsmartphone had Pegasus. But he did now no longer visit get his telecellsmartphone 'checked' while requested through the Supreme Court, in case his telecellsmartphone absolutely become marred through it. Why did not he go? He in reality become afraid”, the BJP chief stated.
In Rahul Gandhi`s first press convention in view that his disqualification from the Lok Sabha, the Congress chief alleged that Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla unnoticed his letters searching for time to answer to the allegations levelled in opposition to him through BJP leaders over his `democracy beneathneath attack` speech in London. Upon thinking the speaker on why he become now no longer allowed to talk in Parliament, he smiled at me and stated he can`t take delivery of it and proceeded to ask me for tea, Gandhi claimed.
In Gandhi's 2nd letter launched through Congress on Tuesday, the chief has advised the speaker once more to permit him the `proper to answer` in Parliament after his first request published on March 17 elicited no response. The letters have been despatched at a time while the Parliament is still in a logjam over the BJP's call for for an apology from Gandhi for his London comments and the Opposition's name for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani-Hindenburg row.
Calling BJP's allegation that he sought overseas intervention thru his Cambridge speech `ridiculous`, he stated, “My speech made in Parliament become expunged, and later I wrote an in depth respond to the Lok Sabha Speaker...announcing that that is my proper to get an possibility to talk in Parliament. I were given no answers.”
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Gandhi additionally stated that he does now no longer care if he completely loses his MP status, including that the purpose for his disqualification become Prime Minister Narendra Modi's worry of his subsequent speech on Adani. "I actually have visible it in his eyes," he stated.
On Friday, Gandhi become disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha, an afternoon after his conviction through the Surat courtroom docket withinside the defamation case over his 'Modi surname' commentary.
Congress To Observe "Black Day" In Wayanad Over Rahul Gandhi Disqualification
As a part of a protest in opposition to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, Wayanad District Congress Committee leader ND Appachan stated that the celebration will observe "Black Day" on Saturday. Earlier, Leader of the Opposition in Kerala, VD Satheesan, stated that the motion in opposition to Mr Gandhi become "hasty and politically motivated".