NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, outrightly refuted the BJP’s allegations that he shoved the ruling party’s MPs at the House entrance, cliaming that its one of the new tatics by the BJP to divert attention from the uproar over Union home minister Amit Shah‘s remark on Ambedkar and Adani issue.
The Congress leader claimed that the basic strategy of the BJP was to avoid discussion on the industrialist Guatam Adani’s indictment in the Untied States.
“A few days before the Parliament session, the Adani case came up in America and the BJP tried to stop the discussion on it. The basic strategy of the BJP was that there should be no discussion on the Adani case, it should be suppressed… After that Amit Shah’s statement came and we have been saying from the beginning that the thinking of the BJP and the RSS is anti-Constitution, anti-Ambedkar,” Rahul Gandhi said during a press brief on Thursday.
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Rahul Gandhi, like the party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, also sought Amit Shah’s apology and resignation over his remarks on Ambedkar.
“They want to erase the memories and contributions of Ambedkar ji. We said the home minister (Amit Shah) should apologise and resign…Today again they have started a new distraction. We were peacefully going to Parliament House from Ambedkar’s statue. BJP MPs did not let us go inside…The reality is that they have insulted Dr BR Ambedkar. The main issue they want to erase is that there is a case against Narendra Modi’s friend Adani in the United States and Narendra Modi is selling India to Adani. This is the main issue and these people do not want to discuss it,” the Raebareli MP said.
Soon after Congress’s press conference, the BJP addressed the media, saying that the brief by Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge “showed their arrogance”.
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“Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi just did a press conference. We thought they would apologise for what they did today. But they did not. I did not understand why they did a press conference. Their press conference displayed their arrogance… I have been seeing his behaviour. But what he (Rahul Gandhi) did today is unimaginable by a civilised society… Today when BJP MPs were opposing at the Makar Dwar, Rahul Gandhi came there. Security personnel told them to use the other space on the side to enter. But he came there on purpose,” Union Minister Shivraj Chouhan said in the BJP’s press conference.
Chouhan said Rahul Gandhi indulged in “goondaism” and “purposely and in planned way scuffled with BJP MPs and resorted to violence”.
“Congress and other MPs have been staging protests at Makar Dwar almost daily and we also enter Parliament without disturbing them. However, Rahul Gandhi purposely and in a planned way scuffled with BJP MPs and resorted to violence,” Shivraj Chouhan claimed.