Adani Row Just Congress's Ploy To Brighten Rahul Gandhi's Career: Kiren Rijiju

Rijiju said that if the opposition party tries to "tear apart" the Constitution by attacking the judiciary, "we will not stay silent".

New Delhi: While blaming the Congress for featuring the Adani row to "brighten" Rahul Gandhi's political picture, Union Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said that if the opposition party tries to "tear apart" the Constitution by attacking the judiciary, "we will not stay silent", reported news agency PTI.

"I am not going to make any comment on it (the Hindenburg-Adani issue) as the Supreme Court has already formed a committee and is looking into it. But I want to say that this all is being done to brighten the political career of Rahul Gandhi," Rijiju told reporters on the sidelines of a function at the University of Jammu.

He stated that it is being made into an issue "deliberately."

"The country is run by the Constitution and the law of the land. One man has failed politically and they are trying to highlight controversies, make an issue out of these to brighten his career," the senior BJP leader said. Rijiju was there to launch the first edition of the Constitution of India in the Dogri language.

"The Congress is in frustration and attacking the judiciary but the government will not stay silent," Rijiju said when asked about a reported threat by a Congress leader to chop off the tongue of the judge in Surat who had convicted Gandhi in a 2019 criminal defamation case.

Gandhi's conviction and two-year sentencing in the case over his "Modi surname" remark led to his disqualification as a member of Lok Sabha last month. "It is the habit of the Congress (to issue threats against the judiciary). Even before the imposition of the Emergency in 1975, its leaders attacked the judiciary and they will make further attacks because of their frustration," the law minister alleged.

Rijiju said that "we are followers of the Constitution and if they try to tear apart the Constitution, we will not stay silent".

Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, stated that democracy is in danger, not a person associated with dynastic politics.

Shah said on Friday in Uttar Pradesh that "your family" and the concept of dynasty politics are in danger, not democracy, in response to Gandhi's recent remarks in the UK.