Govt using tactics to distract and divert from Adani issue: Rahul

New Delhi, Dec 19 (Agency) Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused the government of using tactics to distract and divert from the main issue of the ‘indictment of Adani in the US’. Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, Rahul Gandhi along with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that the statement by Home Minister Amit Shah on Baba Saheb BR Ambedkar was another tactics to distract from the Adani issue. Rahul said, “We asked Amit Shah to resign but that did not happened and what happened today was another distraction by the BJP to divert the nation from the Adani issue”. “They have insulted Ambedkar ji. They should apologise for this and the Home Minister should resign,” Gandhi said. “We have been saying from the very beginning that the thinking of the the BJP-RSS has always been anti-Constitution and against Ambedkar ji. They want to erase the contribution of Baba Saheb Ambedkar ji, They have projected this infront of everyone,” Gandhi said.

The former Congress president said, “The main issue is that there is a case against Adani ji, who is a friend of Narendra Modi ji in the US. He has been indicted in that country and Modi ji is selling the country to Adani. And these people don’t want any discussion on this issue”. Meanwhile, Kharge accused the BJP of not allowing the “peacefully protesting” MPs even women members from going into the Parliament. He also said, “The BJP MPs even pushed me, I lost my balance and fell down but they are blaming us of pushing them”. He said that the environment that BJP had created in the country would not be tolerated and a movement was being organized across the country against this. Earlier in the day a scuffle between the Congress and the BJP MPs left two members of the ruling party namely Pratap Chandra Sarangi and Mukesh Rajput injured outside the Parliament. Soon after the incident, war of words erupted between the BJP and Congress, with both the parties accusing each other of assaulting their members. The BJP even lodged a complaint against Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of physically assaulting two BJP MPs.