Whose Rs 20,000 Cr...: Rahul Gandhi Asks After BJP's 'Pressurising Judiciary' Allegations
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has once again raised the issue of 'Rs 20,000 crore in the shell companies of Adani' asking 'whose money is it'
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has once again raised the issue of 'Rs 20,000 crore in the shell companies of Adani' asking 'whose money is it'. The disqualified leader was responding to the questions of the media over the BJP's allegations of 'pressurising judiciary' after he filed an appeal in Surat court against his conviction on Monday.
Reacting to the questions, he said, "Why do you ask what BJP said? Why do you say what BJP said?" Gandhi added that there's only one thing - "whose Rs 20,000 crore are there in the shell companies of Adani?"
#WATCH | Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi answers on BJP allegations of "Congress pressurising judiciary" and speaks on Adani row as he arrives at the AICC office. pic.twitter.com/U18YTLrkbQ
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This comes after the BJP accused Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party to pressurise judiciary as the leader filed an appeal against his conviction in a Surat court in Gujarat on Monday.
The BJP called Gandhi's visit to Surat with a host of party leaders a "childish attempt" to pressure the judiciary.
Earlier on Monday, a sessions court in Surat granted bail to Gandhi in the defamation case and will hear the matter on April 13. The former Congress president is not required to appear in court for the next hearing.
If Gandhi fails to get his conviction reversed, his disqualification as an MP will stand and he will be barred from contesting elections for eight years. He has already been asked to vacate his government-allotted bungalow.
The 52-year-old Congress leader reached Surat along with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and a host of Congress leaders. Chief ministers of three Congress-ruled states -- Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel and Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu -- also accompanied him.
Gandhi was convicted by the Surat lower court and sentenced to prison for two years last month in the case. A day later, he was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha, sparking a huge protest by Congress and other Opposition parties.
The former Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad had said "how come all thieves have the common surname Modi?" while addressing a rally in Karnataka ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election, targetting PM Modi over his last name which he shares with fugitive businessmen Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi.
However, the former Congress president was granted bail till April 13 in the case. After being granted bail in a defamation case over his 2019 remark about the surname Modi, he called it a fight to save democracy against "Mitrakaal".
"This is a fight to save democracy against 'Mitrakaal'. In this struggle, truth is my weapon, and truth is my support!" Gandhi tweeted.
The former Congress chief has repeatedly been taking the 'Mitrakaal' jibe at the Narendra Modi government amid the Adani row, accusing it of working to benefit its "crony capitalist friends".
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