Venugopal attacks BJP for filing FIR against Rahul Gandhi over Parl scuffle

Congress general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal on Thursday, 19 December 2024, criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after some of its MPs led by Anurag Thakur submitted a complaint with the police against the Lok Sabha leader of the Opposition, Rahul Gandhi, in connection with the scuffle on Parliament premises during which two BJP MPs sustained injuries.

Terming the move by the BJP a diversionary tactic, Venugopal wrote on social media platform X: "The FIR against @RahulGandhi ji is nothing but a diversionary tactic in response to his staunch protest against the home minister (Amit Shah)."

"A case against him for defending Babasaheb's legacy is a badge of honour. And in any case, Rahul Ji is already facing 26 FIRs due to the BJP's political vendetta and this latest FIR will not stop him or the Congress from standing up against the casteist RSS-BJP regime."

The senior Congress leader also added: "At the same time, why has the Delhi Police not acted on the FIRs filed by women MPs of INC against the BJP leaders who physically assaulted them?"

The Opposition Congress in Kerala on Thursday held a protest march to the office of the Accountant General (AG) here against Union Minister Amit Shah's remarks allegedly slighting B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution.

The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) led the protest march and also burned an effigy of Shah.

They were protesting against Shah who on Tuesday evening had said in the Rajya Sabha that Congress leaders would have got a place in heaven had they chanted the name of God rather than following the fashion of repeating Ambedkar's name.

KPCC general secretary in-charge of organisation, M Liju, inaugurated the protest march and said that Shah's remarks about Ambedkar were an "insult" to him and showed contempt towards the Constitution.

He also claimed that the false allegations against Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, that he pushed some BJP MPs, were aimed at diverting the public anger against Shah.