By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot Sunday slammed the BJP over its fee that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs together with his observation in 2019, and mentioned his celebration has completed so much for backward categories which come with making an OBC chief like him CM three times.
Gandhi was once on Thursday sentenced to 2 years in prison via a Surat court docket in a 2019 legal defamation case over his “why all thieves have Modi surname” observation.
A number of BJP leaders, together with celebration leader J P Nadda, have accused Gandhi of insulting Different Backward Categories (OBCs) thru his observation.
Addressing a meeting on the daylong “Sankalp Satyagraha” of the Congress on the Rajghat, Gehlot mentioned High Minister Narendra Modi carried out an “experiment” in Gujarat polls in 2017 via announcing {that a} Congress chief abused him about his caste.
And in a repeat of that, the BJP is claiming once more sooner than elections that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs, Gehlot mentioned, “In 2017, when the BJP was once dropping the Gujarat elections, Modi ji performed the OBC card in opposition to the Congress there. The BJP these days once more desires to run a marketing campaign to lie to the OBCs,” he alleged.
Are fugitives like Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi OBCs, he requested.
“You’re protective fugitives equivalent to Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi, after which announcing Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs,” he mentioned.
Gehlot mentioned can any individual disregard what the Congress has completed for OBCs and SCs and STs. “I’ve been made CM for the 3rd time via Sonia ji, Rahul ji. I’m an OBC. There is just one member of OBC Mali neighborhood (within the meeting) and that’s me,” he mentioned.
Gehlot mentioned what “larger message” might be for the OBCs there than him being made leader minister over and over again.
Chhattisgarh Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel could also be comes from the OBC neighborhood, he identified.
Elections are coming and this is why they’re elevating this bogey of OBC insult, he alleged.
“It’s baseless.” He mentioned the sacrifices of the Gandhi circle of relatives are sooner than everybody and Rahul Gandhi is continuously elevating the problem of unemployment and top costs.
“They may now not solution on allegations raised in Parliament via Rahul Gandhi. I’ve by no means observed sooner than that allegations are raised however as a substitute of answering, the top minister has taken a vow of silence,” Gehlot mentioned.
The BJP raised allegations in opposition to Gandhi for his remarks in another country, when he mentioned what he were announcing within the nation, he mentioned.
It’s the PM who must solution and apologise, Gehlot mentioned.
“Rahul Gandhi has emerged because the voice of the rustic. We will be able to stay combating to make sure that democracy is saved alive within the nation,” he mentioned.
NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot Sunday slammed the BJP over its fee that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs together with his observation in 2019, and mentioned his celebration has completed so much for backward categories which come with making an OBC chief like him CM three times.
Gandhi was once on Thursday sentenced to 2 years in prison via a Surat court docket in a 2019 legal defamation case over his “why all thieves have Modi surname” observation.
A number of BJP leaders, together with celebration leader J P Nadda, have accused Gandhi of insulting Different Backward Categories (OBCs) thru his observation.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Addressing a meeting on the daylong “Sankalp Satyagraha” of the Congress on the Rajghat, Gehlot mentioned High Minister Narendra Modi carried out an “experiment” in Gujarat polls in 2017 via announcing {that a} Congress chief abused him about his caste.
And in a repeat of that, the BJP is claiming once more sooner than elections that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs, Gehlot mentioned, “In 2017, when the BJP was once dropping the Gujarat elections, Modi ji performed the OBC card in opposition to the Congress there. The BJP these days once more desires to run a marketing campaign to lie to the OBCs,” he alleged.
Are fugitives like Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi OBCs, he requested.
“You’re protective fugitives equivalent to Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi, after which announcing Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs,” he mentioned.
Gehlot mentioned can any individual disregard what the Congress has completed for OBCs and SCs and STs. “I’ve been made CM for the 3rd time via Sonia ji, Rahul ji. I’m an OBC. There is just one member of OBC Mali neighborhood (within the meeting) and that’s me,” he mentioned.
Gehlot mentioned what “larger message” might be for the OBCs there than him being made leader minister over and over again.
Chhattisgarh Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel could also be comes from the OBC neighborhood, he identified.
Elections are coming and this is why they’re elevating this bogey of OBC insult, he alleged.
“It’s baseless.” He mentioned the sacrifices of the Gandhi circle of relatives are sooner than everybody and Rahul Gandhi is continuously elevating the problem of unemployment and top costs.
“They may now not solution on allegations raised in Parliament via Rahul Gandhi. I’ve by no means observed sooner than that allegations are raised however as a substitute of answering, the top minister has taken a vow of silence,” Gehlot mentioned.
The BJP raised allegations in opposition to Gandhi for his remarks in another country, when he mentioned what he were announcing within the nation, he mentioned.
It’s the PM who must solution and apologise, Gehlot mentioned.
“Rahul Gandhi has emerged because the voice of the rustic. We will be able to stay combating to make sure that democracy is saved alive within the nation,” he mentioned.
