On Wednesday, the Congress lodged a police case and staged large-scale demonstrations against BJP leaders, such as Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu, for their remarks made against Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.
Congress Treasurer Ajay Maken sent the complaint to the Tughlak Road Police Station in New Delhi, and he also forwarded a copy of it to India’s Chief Election Commissioner.
The complaint states, “The threats issued by various BJP Leaders and its allies, calling for assassination and/or bodily injury onto Rahul Gandhi and also calling the Leader of Opposition of the country a terrorist, exhibits personal hatred by the BJP/ NDA alliance partners against Gandhi and such utterances are made only with the aim to cause unrest among the general masses to provoke rioting, breach of peace etc. through the hate filled remarks.”
The statement further reads, “Shri Rahul Gandhi has been continuously raising issues pertaining to deprived sections of the society such as women, youth, Dalits and other marginalized sections etc. and the failure of the BJP to address such public centric issue. However, the same has not gone down well with the BJP and its allies, therefore the above-named persons have been deputed to make such hate-filled comments on the Leader of Opposition of India.”
One BJP politician who “openly issued assassination threat against Gandhi” on September 11 was named in the lawsuit, Tarvinder Singh Marwah. Rahul Gandhi would suffer the same fate as his grandmother Indira Gandhi, according to the complaint, if Marwah’s words are taken literally.
According to the complaint, their remarks are an attempt to jeopardize Gandhi’s security and disturb the peace, especially in view of the current elections in Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir.