Martyred PM’s son who walked for nationwide solidarity can by no means insult nation: Priyanka Gandhi

By way of PTI

NEW DELHI: Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday stated a martyred high minister’s son who walked hundreds of kilometres for nationwide solidarity can by no means insult the rustic because the Congress held a national protest towards the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha.

Priyanka Gandhi was once addressing the ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ at Rajghat — the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi — right here to protest towards Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case and his next disqualification from the Lok Sabha.

She stated the time had come to lift a voice towards an “conceited executive” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections does no longer bode smartly for the rustic and its democracy.

The Congress has introduced a day-long satyagraha in any respect states and district headquarters to protest towards Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case and his next disqualification from the Lok Sabha.

Gandhi was once disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him within the defamation case.

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The disqualification will save you Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for 8 years until the next court docket remains the conviction.

The Congress chief alleged that Rahul Gandhi was once disqualified for wondering the high minister on industrialist Gautam Adani and other people will give a befitting answer to these at the back of the motion.

“My circle of relatives’s blood has ploughed democracy on this nation. We’re able to do anything else for this nation’s democracy. Nice leaders of Congress laid the basis of democracy on this nation. Time has come and we aren’t those who will stay silent anymore,” she advised the outdoor Rajghat.

Asking if a martyred high minister’s son can insult the rustic, Priyanka Gandhi stated, “That is an insult to that high minister who gave his lifestyles.”

“You’ve gotten known as a martyr’s son anti-national, Mir Jafar, insulted his mom in Parliament. The high minister in Parliament asks why this circle of relatives does no longer use the ‘Nehru’ surname. You insult all the circle of relatives and the custom of Kashmiri Pandits.

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“However there’s no case towards you. You do not get a case or a two-year time period and nobody disqualifies you. Why?” she requested.

Priyanka Gandhi stated until these days, they have got been insulting “our circle of relatives and we remained silent however no longer any further”.

“How a lot will you insult one particular person?” she stated and requested if Lord Ram, who was once despatched into exile, was once a “parivaarwadi”.

The Congress chief, who alleged that the rustic’s wealth was once being looted and given to at least one particular person, stated this wealth belongs to the folk and nobody can take it away.

“When conceited dictators are not able to reply to the questions raised, they are trying to suppress those that ask the questions.

“This whole Cupboard, executive and MPs are seeking to save one particular person and aren’t protecting an inquiry. Who is that this Adani in whose make stronger everybody comes the instant his title plants up?” she requested.

Wondering if this was once the “mom of democracy”, she requested why persons are nonetheless unemployed if the financial system is doing so smartly.

Noting that lakhs of other people joined Rahul Gandhi on his Bharat Jodo Yatra when he walked from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, Priyanka Gandhi stated, “When an individual who walks from Kanyakumari to Kashmir to unite the rustic, can this particular person insult the rustic?” Popping out in make stronger of her brother, she asserted that Rahul Gandhi needs the deficient, adolescence and the ladies to get their rights and what belongs to them must cross into their fingers and to not anyone who is a large guy and the high minister’s “good friend”.

She stated Rahul Gandhi studied at Harvard and Cambridge — the most productive universities on the planet — however nonetheless they name him a “Pappu”.

“After they got here to grasp that he’s no longer Pappu and lakhs of persons are strolling with him, they were given disturbed over the questions he raised in Parliament to which they do not have solutions.

They’ve to do all this to forestall only one particular person.

“This nation’s high minister is a coward. Take me to prison however in reality this nation’s high minister is a coward. He’s hiding at the back of his energy and (he) is conceited. However this nation’s custom is that individuals respond to an conceited king. This nation recognises an conceited king. This nation is aware of the reality,” she stated.

Priyanka Gandhi additionally recommended the media to know their accountability as “democracy is in peril”.

“If the person who questions is barred from contesting elections for 8 years, it’s not proper for the rustic or its democracy.

Time has come — ‘daro mat (do not be afraid)’.

“Time has come to stand them and unite and make sure the solidarity of the rustic and take it ahead,” she asserted amid cheers from the Congress rank and report.

She stated the time had come to lift a voice towards an “conceited executive” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections does no longer bode smartly for the rustic and its democracy.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );