New Delhi/Kurukshetra: Congress President Rahul Gandhi Wednesday tendered unconditional apology in the Supreme Court for wrongfully attributing his “chowkidar chor hai” remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the apex court in the Rafale verdict.
Gandhi, who filed an additional affidavit, said he holds the apex court in the “highest esteem and respect” and any attributions to it were “entirely unintentional, non-wilful and inadvertent”.
He also urged the top court to close the criminal contempt proceedings initiated on a petition filed by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, who alleged that Gandhi attributed the personal remarks to the apex court and tried to create prejudice.
The three-page affidavit was filed by the Congress president after he had drawn flak from the apex court on April 30 over his earlier affidavit in which he had not directly admitted his mistake for incorrectly attributing the allegedly contemptuous remark to the top court.
“The deponent (Rahul Gandhi) unconditionally apologises for the wrongful attributions to this court. The deponent further states that any such attributions were entirely unintentional, non-wilful and inadvertent,” Gandhi said in his fresh affidavit filed in the apex court.
“The deponent (Gandhi) most respectfully prays that this court may be graciously pleased to accept the instant affidavit and close the present contempt proceedings,” he stated in the affidavit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday accused the Congress of hurling abuses at him from its “love dictionary” and said the party did not even spare his mother. “I stopped their corruption and challenged their dynasty because of which they wear masks of love and abuse me,” he said in a rally at Kurukshetra.
The prime minister claimed that the Congress also compared him to Hitler, Dawood Ibrahim, Mussolini, etc. “I am visiting my home, Haryana and Kurukshetra is a land of truth so from here I want to tell my countrymen what is their love dictionary and the words they use for me,” Modi said.
His remarks came after Congress president Rahul Gandhi said Monday that despite Modi insulting his father Rajiv Gandhi, he only had love for the prime minister.
“A leader of Congress called me ‘gandi naali ka keeda’ (an insect), one leader called me a mad dog, another one called me Bhasmasura. One more Congress leader, who was external affairs minister, called me a monkey while another minister compared me with Dawood Ibrahim,” Modi alleged.
“They even abused my mother and even asked who my father is and remember all this was said after I became Prime Minister,” he said. (PTI)
