Team News Riveting
New Delhi, March 25
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allegedly diverting Adani issue by disqualifying him as lawmaker.
“I have been disqualified as the Prime Minister is scared of my next speech. I have seen fear in his eyes. That’s why they don’t want me to speak in the Parliament,” the Congress leader said at a press conference in party headquarters a day after he was disqualified as the member of Lok Sabha following sentence awarded by a Surat court in a criminal defamation case.
“I will keep asking questions on Adani issue, they cannot scare me by disqualification or putting me in jail. I won’t back down,” Gandhi said. The entire game (of his disqualification) was planned to divert discussion from Adani issue, he said, adding that Centre was facilitating Adani in his business. Rahul said, “for this government, country is Adani and Adani is country.” Calling his disqualification from Lok Sabha a decision made in haste, Rahul said Opposition will benefit most from government’s panic reaction.
He said Narendra Modi and Adani have old bonhomie and it began when former was Gujarat’s CM. “Moot question remains who invested Rs 20,000 crore in Adani shell firms. Will keep asking the question,” Rahul said.
When asked if he would comply with BJP’s demand of apology on statements he made in UK, Rahul categorically denied to fall in with such demands. “My name is not Savarkar, it is Gandhi and Gandhi never offers apology,” he said.
