BJP president JP Nadda in New Delhi. File picture
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A day after a courtroom in Surat convicted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a case of prison defamation, BJP president J.P. Nadda on Friday, March 24, 2023, launched a powerful assault on him, stating that Mr. Gandhi, by his remarks had proven a “pathetic and casteist mindset.”
Mr. Gandhi was convicted after he was sued by BJP MLA Purnesh Modi over his assertion, “how come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname” and was sentenced to 2 years in jail (the sentence has been suspended for 30 days).
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Mr Nadda’s assertion, remodeled Twitter, has made it clear that the BJP has determined to launch an all out assault on Mr Gandhi, with no quarters given, and to additionally join the surname slur to a bigger OBC neighborhood. In truth, on Thursday night, functionaries of the All India Teli Mahasangh, a lot of whom carry the “Modi” surname, stated in an announcement that Mr Gandhi owed an apology to the neighborhood and that he had “started abusing people” after shedding polls.
In a collection of tweets, Mr Nadda, who had remained out of the fray on Thursday, stated, “by comparing OBC communities to thieves, Mr Rahul Gandhi has shown a pathetic and casteist mindset , however his latest tirade is not surprising. For the last many years he has reduced the level of political discourse.”
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“Lies, personal slander and negative politics is integral to Mr Rahul Gandhi,” stated Mr Nadda, going again to the 2019 polls and the marketing campaign launched by the Congress on the Rafael deal. “In the run up to the 2019 polls Rahul Gandhi kept repeating Chowkidar chor hai (the guard is the thief) , notwithstanding the harm he was doing to the political discourse. He went on ranting against Prime Minister Modi, even if it meant he was defeated in his own seat and his party wiped out nationally,” tweeted Mr Nadda. “So much for Chowkidar Chor Hai that neither Congress leaders nor Congress allies appreciated this deep slander against Prime Minister Modi. In fact, this issue was also taken up in Congress Working Committee (CWC), where senior Congress leaders even supposedly expressed their unhappiness over it,” he added.
“Now, Mr Gandhi calls the entire OBC community thieves, he gets flak in the Courts but refuses to apologise thus showing how deep rooted his hatred for OBCs is. The people of India did not forgive him in 2019, in 20124 the punishment will be more severe,” he stated.
