New Delhi : In the face of continuing protests by Congress on the Rahul Gandhi disqualification, the BJP further stepped up its counterattack. In an unsparing rebuttal, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani slammed ousted MP Rahul Gandhi for lying abroad and also in India, both inside and outside Parliament.
Smriti went on to describe Rahul Gandhi's allegations and denials as 'political psychosis on full display'. The disqualified Congress MP abused PM Modi, even President Draupadi Murmu and got convicted for passing derogatory comments against the OBCs, she said and asserted that while Rahul Gandhi was targetting to attack PM Modi, it was the country's development that the PM was targetting to achieve.
The Union Minister, addressing the media, also called Rahul Gandhi a pretender who was projecting as if he was courageous without fear of anything. She recalled how the entire Gandhi family launched a joint attack on PM Modi. Once in an interview, Rahul Gandhi had publicly said that he would go on targetting till PM Modi's image would be completely destroyed, she said.
Refuting the allegations of Opposition leaders, Smriti has asserted that Rahul Gandhi's disqualification was the result of a court judgement based on which the Speaker of the Lok Sabha took the necessary action as per the constitutional procedures.
The Union Minister, during her visit to Bengaluru yesterday, called it an 'Operation of Law' under which Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Parliament following his conviction by a court of law. As per the judgement, it seemed Gandhi did not defend himself and he thought he was above the law, she said and added that the eventual developments showed that nobody is above the law in the country.
The Union Minister, who took part in a BJP event organised here on Monday ahead of the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections, accused Rahul Gandhi of passing derogatory remarks against the whole OBC (other backward classes) community. It was unfortunate that they were trying to make it look like that the Central Government was responsible for the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi, she said.
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Strongly defending the disqualification of the Congress leader, Smriti Irani asked whether the country's democratic principles should be compromised to give an exemption to Rahul Gandhi despite his racial slur against a section of society. She said that what Rahul Gandhi spoke in Britain was total lie as nobody prevented him from going to the Universities in India to make speeches.
Smriti Irani made a dig at the Congress party leaders for what she described as their misplaced viewpoint of applying a separate law for the Gandhi family in a democratic country like India.
