Immediately after the High Court issued the order, Congress said it would refer it to the Supreme Court, saying it was “very disappointing, but not unexpected”.
Release date – Friday, July 23 – 11:30pm
New Delhi: The Gujarat High Court on Friday rejected Rahul Gandhi’s request to stay his conviction in a defamation case, unleashing a tsunami of charges and counter-charges as Congress accused the government of “finding new techniques to silence” his voice, the Bharatiya Janata Party said. He said he had a “long-standing habit” of insulting and slandering others.
After the High Court’s order, Parliament called it “very disappointing but not unexpected” and said it would take the matter to the Supreme Court, claiming the decision strengthened its resolve to pursue the matter further.
Congress party chief Malikajun Hager claimed the BJP used “lies as part of a political conspiracy” to get Gandhi suspended, saying no party leader or worker feared the “political conspiracy” of the saffron party and would be in law. fight politically.
“Rahul Gandhi has always fought for truth and will continue to fight in the future. Fact is, Lalit Modi, Nirav Modi, Mehul Bai, Vijay Malia and Jaitin Fugitives such as Mehta fled the country under the watchful eyes of the Modi government and fled suspiciously abroad after taking public funds.
“The BJP freed them but used lies as part of a political conspiracy to put Mr Rahul Gandhi in the dock and get him suspended from Parliament,” Hager claimed in a Hindi tweet .
The BJP welcomed the Gujarat High Court’s ruling, saying insulting and slandering others is a “long-standing habit” of Congress leaders.
BJP leader and former union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told a news conference here that the Congress leader refused to apologize for his “Modi surname” taunt and showed “no Responsible arrogance”.
Prasad said that if he acts like this and defames people and institutions, the law will come after him. Those who claim Gandhi was severely punished should answer why he committed such a “severe” crime, he claimed.
He added that the law has caught up with him.
The former law minister said insulting and defaming prominent personalities and organizations had become a “long-standing habit” of Gandhi, adding that the Congress leader was also accused of insulting “great patriots” such as VD Savarkar and the Hinduist group RSS.
Prasad said Gandhi had to apologize to the Supreme Court for his statements in the Rafale case, but he later attacked a reporter covering his press conference, saying he was the BJP spokesman.
Prasad said it was his arrogance to think he was from the Gandhi family and therefore above the law. He reiterated the BJP’s position that the Congress leader allegedly insulted backward castes by associating the Modi surname with thieves.
A similar view was echoed by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who said Congress was needlessly “blaming” the Gujarat High Court’s ruling.
Congress should admit that Gandhi insulted backward society and was punished by judicial system according to constitution.
Abhishek Singhvi, speaker of Congress and lawyer in Gandhi’s case, told a news conference at the AICC headquarters that the Gujarat High Court’s dismissal of Rahul Gandhi’s plea was “very disappointing but not unexpected.” “.
“The High Court and Sessions Court jurisprudence we have received from Gujarat is unique as there is no other similar or precedent in the jurisprudence of defamation law. HC called it a heinous crime as if it was a crime against the state .”
The ultimate court, Singhvi said, is the court of the people who see what is happening and how “a whole cottage industry is directed against one person”.
The current government is uneasy because Rahul Gandhi talks about demonetization, the government’s “clean” about China and the troubled economic situation with facts and figures.
The government is finding “newer and newer techniques to silence his voice… We’re seeing this cycle of oppression and repression repeated. We’ll fight it.”
Rahul Gandhi will fight it. If you take the past nine years as an example, they have never been able to silence his vigilant voices,” Singhwi said.
AICC secretary-general Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said Rahul Gandhi was fighting for the truth and the good of the people while an “arrogant regime” was using all means to deter him.
Shortly after the Gujarat High Court issued the order, Priyanka Gandhi quoted Ramdari Singh “Dinka” poem “samar shesh hai… The Modi government launched a severe attack.
“Rahul Gandhi is fighting for the truth and the good of the people against this ‘arrogant regime’,” she said. The Congress leader claimed that the “arrogant regime” wished not to raise issues that were in the interest of the people and would help improve their lives.
“The arrogant regime is doing everything it can to suppress the truth, which is
Use every means – ‘saam, daam, dand, bhed, chal, kapat (money, power, punishment, discrimination, deceit)’ – to distract people from issues of public interest,” she said.
At the same time, the United Australia Party, which recently had a dispute with the Congress Party, also stood up to support Gandhi and accused the BJP of indulging in “useless politics” to divert people’s attention from real problems.
Asked about the court’s verdict, AAP chief spokeswoman Priyanka Kakkar told reporters that it must be wrong and that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was in Gandhi’s case. It was also called a “mistake” when it was convicted in the case.
BJP MP Manoj Jha said the verdicts had not had a positive impact on the judicial structure.
The Gujarat High Court has rejected Gandhi’s plea to stay his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his “Modi surname” remarks.
While dismissing the guilty plea, Judge Hemant Prachak noted that Gandhi already faced 10 criminal cases across India, adding that the lower court’s order to jail Gandhi for two years for his remarks was “just, proper and lawful”. of” .
On March 23, Surat City District Court in the 2019 case brought by BJP Gujarat MP Purnesh Modi under Sections 499 and 500 (Criminal Defamation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Gandhi was sentenced to two years in prison.
