Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said that he spoke to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after the latter was convicted by a Surat court for two years imprisonment in a case related to speaking ill of Modi surname
PATNA – In wake of a Gujarat court convicting Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case on Thursday, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav came out in his support, accusing the BJP of a deep conspiracy to frame the senior Congress leader in a baseless case.
“BJP has made a chakravyuh for opposition leaders and targeting them by using ED, CBI and Income Tax. Still, someone would doesn’t come in the trap, they lodge baseless cases in different cities. It is a subject of deep concern for our Constitution, democracy, politics and the country,” Tejashwi Yadav said on his official Twitter account.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar or his JD-U’s national President Lalan Singh are yet to comment on the matter.
Gandhi, during 2019 Lok Sabha election campaigning, had asked “why all thieves have the Modi surname”. Following this, BJP leader Purnesh Modi lodged a defamation case against Gandhi in a Surat court.
BJP Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Modi also lodged a defamation case against Gandhi in a Patna court as well.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said that he spoke to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after the latter was convicted by a Surat court for two years imprisonment in a case related to speaking ill of Modi surname.
The court convicted him under Section 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the IPC. As per the prosecution, Rahul while addressing a public meeting in Karnataka asked, “Why do all the thieves have Modi as their names. Whether it is Nirav Modi or Lalit Modi or Narendra Modi.”
BJP legislator from Gujarat, Purnesh Modi, had filed a criminal defamation suit against Rahul Gandhi in which he said that the Congress leader had defamed the entire Modi community by his statement.
Stalin said that the BJP government at the Centre was targeting opposition leaders. He said that this was highly deplorable.
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister in a statement on Thursday said that he had spoken to Rahul Gandhi over the telephone. Stalin said that Rahul was his brother and that he was unfairly targeted.
He said that BJP was trampling democratic rights of opposition parties and that such acts would not last long. -IANS
