Congress chief Rahul Gandhi nowadays fumed over the query on Bharatiya Janata Party`s allegations of Congress celebration “pressurising” the judiciary, and attacked the centre over the Adani issue. The former MP arrived on the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters right here withinside the countrywide capital, for the assembly beforehand of the subsequent listing of celebration applicants for the Karnataka Assembly elections.
While achieving the AICC headquarters, Rahul Gandhi turned into requested approximately the allegations placed up with the aid of using BJP on Congress’s “pressurising” judiciary, to which he replied, “Why do you continually say what BJP is saying…on every occasion you are saying what BJP is saying”.
He similarly added, “There is a totally easy thing. Who does the ₹ 20,000 crore withinside the shell businesses of Adani, belong to? These are benami, whose is it?”
Along with him, numerous celebration leaders like DK Shivakumar, Verrappa Moily, Randeep Surjewala, DK Suresh, Priyank Kharge and Mohsina Kidwai additionally reached the AICC headquarters.
The elections are slated to be held in Karnataka on May 10, and the counting of votes will take vicinity on May 13.
This comes after BJP attacked Rahul Gandhi for achieving the courtroom docket at the side of many celebration leaders accusing it of “pressuring” the judiciary.
Earlier on Monday, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi at the side of numerous senior celebration leaders went to the Gujarat courtroom docket to document an enchantment in opposition to his March 23 conviction in a crook defamation case over his “Modi surname” observation.
He turned into followed with the aid of using his sister and celebration chief Priyanka Gandhi. Along with her, the Chief Ministers of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh too got here to the courtroom docket.
The courtroom docket in Gujarat’s Surat granted bail until the disposal of the enchantment to Rahul Gandhi withinside the defamation case.
The former MP from Wayanad turned into convicted and sentenced to 2 years in hail with the aid of using the courtroom docket of Chief Judicial Magistrate H H Varma on March 23 in a defamation case over his ‘Modi surname’ observation in 2019 in Karnataka.
The count number relates to Rahul Gandhi’s feedback at a rally in Karnataka’s Kolar in April 2019, Rahul, in a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said, “How come all of the thieves have Modi because the not unusualplace surname?”.
Following his conviction, Rahul Gandhi turned into disqualified as an MP on March 24, as consistent with a Supreme Court ruling in 2013. Under the ruling, any MP or MLA stands to be disqualified mechanically if convicted and sentenced to two years or more.