SHIMLA: State Congress President and Mandi MP Pratibha Singh today attacked the Modi government at the Centre saying that Congress will not allow the murder of democracy in the country while referring to the expulsion of Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi from the membership of the House.
Addressing a press conference at State Congress Headquarters Rajiv Bhavan here today, Pratibha Singh said that the BJP targeted Rahul Gandhi as part of a well-planned strategy.
She said the Congress has launched Satyagrah in the state in protest against the expulsion of Congress national leader Rahul Gandhi from the membership of the parliament.
The Congress leaders Kaul Singh Thakur, Asha Kumari and others hold press conferences in the state in protest to expose the misdoings of the the Central government.
Gandhi had asked two questions to the Modi government at the Center on the Adani scam in the House.
She charged that the Prime Minister is choking the throat democracy to save his friend Adani. Congress is raising the voice of farmers, horticulturists, workers and common people while the Prime Minister is busy strengthening his best friend Adani.
"Congress has established big public sector enterprises in the country since independence, and today the Modi government is allegedly engaged in "selling those enterprises to the friends", Pratibha Singh charged.
Pratibha Singh said that just 9 days after Rahul Gandhi's speech in Parliament on the Adani scam, the defamation case against him was started again.
She said the hearing of the case begins on February 27 and on March 23. The trial court convicted Rahul Gandhi and sentences him to a maximum sentence of two years in this case.
Along with this, within 24 hours on March 24, the membership of Rahul Gandhi is canceled and after that the order is issued to vacate the government residence within a month.
She claims that this is the first time in the history of the country that a Member of Parliament has been awarded the maximum punishment in a defamation case.
Pratibha Singh charged that part of the speech given by Rahul Gandhi and Congress National President Malikarjun Kharge on Adani inside the house was deleted.
She said that not letting the house run by the ruling party was a part of BJP's well thought-out strategy , which would have avoided Rahul Gandhi's questions in the House.
She said that when Rahul Gandhi wanted to clarify his position in the House on one of his statements given abroad, even after his request to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, he did not even get a chance to speak
He has now been expelled from the membership of the House.
Pratibha Singh claims the BJP is in hysteria due to huge public support that Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra got in the country.
