New Delhi: The Congress is holding a nationwide protest on Monday against the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from the Parliament. This is the second consecutive day the grand old party is holding a protest after Sunday's protest at Raj Ghat.
Senior members of Congress including Sonia Gandhi and Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge participated in a protest in front of the Gandhi statue at the Parliament premises after both Houses got adjourned amid ruckus over Rahul Gandhi's disqualification.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that the message of Congress is to save democracy and the Constitution. Kharge accused the BJP of taking the law into their hands and taking democracy and freedom of speech for a toss. Speaking on the Adani issue, Kharge said that he has become a 'tall figure' now. The Congress chief questioned the silence of the government.
Kharge alleged that the business tycoon has earned money illegally and so the opposition wants a parliamentary probe. The Indian Youth Congress stage a protest in Delhi on Monday over Rahul Gandhi's disqualification. However, they were later detained by the police.
Earlier in the day several opposition parties, including the Trinamool National Congress met at Congress chief Malikarjun Kharge's office on Monday to discuss their strategy ahead of the Parliament proceeding. The TMC had so far stayed away from Congress protests alleging that both the BJP and the Congress follow the same ideology.
This was followed by a meeting of Congress MPs at the party's office in the Parliament, where senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi also participated. The Congress legislators wore black to the Lok Sabha in protest.
On Sunday, senior Congress leaders like P Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh, Salman Khursheed, Pramod Tiwari, Ajay Maken, Mukul Wasnik and Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary participated in the 'Sankalp Satyagraha' at Raj Ghat. Congress workers also resorted to protests across the Country in almost all of the States.
Also read: Priyanka Gandhi slams BJP for 'traitor, Mir Jafar' comments on Rahul
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Sunday came down heavily against the BJP for its double standards. She reminded the BJP of parliamentarians abusing her late father Rajiv Gandhi, calling his brother Rahul Gandhi 'Mir Jafar' and attacking her mother Sonia Gandhi. She charged that no one has been disqualified for making such derogatory statements.
Priyanka used a Ramayana analogy to remind the BJP that it would be wrong to call the Gandhis pariwarvaad (dynasts) when their family has sacrificed so much for the sake of the country. "Can Lord Ram be called pariwarvaadi for going to exile following his father's direction," she wondered.
Kharge said that while the BJP is criticizing Rahul Gandhi for attacking the OBC community, fugitives Lalit Modi, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi do not belong to the OBC but they ran away with people's money. "Why are you pained if these fugitives are criticised," he questioned.
A Surat court on Thursday held Rahul Gandhi as guilty in a criminal defamation case. The court has also sentenced him to two years imprisonment. Following this, the Wayanad MP got disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday. Rahul Gandhi was charged for a speech he made in 2019 at Karnataka's Kolar in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections. In the speech, Rahul drew a parallel between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi.
