Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said he was disqualified from parliament because he was asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi tough questions about his relationship with Adani Group founder Gautam Adani.
According to the Reuters news agency, Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party responded to Rahul Gandhi’s statement by saying that Rahul Gandhi was punished under the law for making insulting comments made in 2019, and that the sentence was punishable by law. Had nothing to do with Adani’s case.
Rahul Gandhi, the former president of India’s largest opposition party, Congress, was sentenced to two years in prison by a court in the western state of Gujarat in a defamation case, and the day after he lost his seat in Parliament. were
The court, while granting him bail, deferred the sentence of sending him to jail for 30 days.
A defamation case was filed against Rahul Gandhi by a leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over a speech he made during the 2019 general elections in which he attributed the ‘Modi’ caste to thieves.
An Indian court yesterday sentenced Rahul Gandhi to 2 years in prison for defamation in the case of his controversial speech in 2019.
Addressing a news conference at the Congress Party headquarters in New Delhi, Rahul Gandhi said, “I have been disqualified because the Prime Minister is afraid of my next speech, he is afraid of the next speech on Adani.”
He said that the Prime Minister does not want that speech to be delivered in Parliament, that is the problem, but he did not explain why Modi would not like his next speech.
India’s next general election is due in mid-2024 and Gandhi is trying to turn around the fortunes of his party, which once ruled the country but now has less than 10 percent of the seats in parliament.
Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday, “I am not afraid of this disqualification. I will keep asking the question, what is the Prime Minister’s relationship with Adani?”
Narendra Modi’s rivals say the prime minister and the BJP’s Adani group have a long-standing relationship dating back two decades to when Modi was chief minister of Gujarat state, Gautam Adani also hails from Gujarat.
The Congress has questioned the investment made by state-owned firms in Adani’s companies and the handover of management of six airports to the group in recent years, even though the Adani group had no experience in the aviation sector. .
The Adani Group has denied the allegations made by the Congress, saying regulators will look into any wrongdoing.
The Congress and its opposition allies have demanded a parliamentary inquiry into the matter.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s life is like an open book of honesty, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a news conference called in response to Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on Saturday.
He said that we do not need to defend Adani, BJP never defends Adani but BJP does not target anyone.
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2024-08-27 10:33:58
