New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who has been in the eye of storm over his conviction & sentencing in a defamation case, took a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders over latter’s onslaught against him.
While coming out of a key Opposition parties meet, Rahul was exiting the building along with many senior Congress leaders including party chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
#WATCH | “If I touch you now, they say I’m wiping my nose on your back. Utter nonsense. Have you seen that? That I am helping you over there, they’re saying that I’m wiping my nose on you,” says Congress MP Rahul Gandhi as he helps party chief Mallikarjun Kharge down the stairs. pic.twitter.com/l6qUSdfS0i
— ANI (@ANI) March 24, 2023
It was then he touched Kharge’s hands and said, “If I touch you, they will say I am wiping nose on your back. If am helping you over there, they will say I am wiping my nose on you.”
Rahul then moved on while dubbing his saffron critics as ‘crazy people’.
Rahul’s ‘wiping my nose’ dig was directed at the BJP as latter recently shared a video of Rahul Gandhi touching Kharge’s back. Sharing the video from its official handle, the BJP claimed that Rahul Gandhi was using Kharge as ‘tissue paper’ and it was great insult & humiliation to the community.
UNFORTUNATELY, the video epitomises what ‘Gandhi’s’ think of senior leaders like @kharge.
It is highly condemnable that @RahulGandhi uses somebody as his TISSUE PAPER!
This Humiliation to a Kannadiga can not be forgiven. pic.twitter.com/vhgOMtFaFo
— BJP Karnataka (@BJP4Karnataka) March 18, 2023
While BJP leaders trained guns at Gandhi family for treating the party like a family fiefdom and treating all others as ‘paupets’, the party’s troubles mounted when a Surat court held Rahul guilty in ‘Modi surname’ defamation case and sentenced him to 2 years in prison.
Today’s meeting was attended by many Opposition parties including DMK, JD(U), AAP, CPI, National Conference and it was done to chalk out a strategy in wake of Rahul’s conviction.
A couple of Opposition parties are furious over Centre’s withhunt and are alleging that central agencies are being misused & maltreated to intimidate & silence the rival parties.
Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi has remained defiant despite the sword of defamation from parliament hanging over his head. Congress party has legal remedies as its option as it can get the order stayed or cancelled by a higher court.
