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Rahul ‘habitual offender’: BJP

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New Delhi, March 24: The BJP on Friday panned Rahul Gandhi as a “habitual offender” who believed the law did not apply to him and asserted that neither the party nor the government had any role in his disqualification from Lok Sabha as the Supreme Court has made it clear that a lawmaker loses his membership from the time of his conviction in a criminal case.
Addressing a press conference, Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Anurag Thakur also suggested that a conspiracy within the Congress might have played a role in its leaders not approaching a higher court for relief for Gandhi after his conviction on Thursday as it had done so in the case of Pawan Khera within hours of the Assam Police arresting him.
Who are the people within the Congress wanting to get rid of Rahul Gandhi, Thakur asked, noting that the party has a battery of lawyers and wondering if the former party president was deliberately put on the “wrong path”. The Congress has so far not appealed against the Surat court order convicting Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case to two years of imprisonment.
With the Congress slamming the government over his disqualification, alleging that it signifies “strangulation of democracy” with the ruling dispensation finding new techniques of “gagging” him, BJP leaders hit back.
“Congress party, especially the Nehru-Gandhi family, wants a separate Indian Penal Code under which they cannot be convicted. They want a separate judiciary. They suffer from a sense of entitlement and feudal mindset. They fail to understand that in a democracy the law is equal for all,” Pradhan said.
“Rahul Gandhi is a habitual offender and loose cannon. He thought he could say anything without facing any consequences,” Thakur said, noting that the Congress leader is on bail in seven different cases.
Gandhi has always considered himself above Parliament, government and the country, the BJP leader said while referring to his alleged recent insulting remarks about the Indian democracy in the UK.remarks in the Rafale case but did not mend his ways, the information and broadcasting minister said. (PTI)

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