Jammu, March 30: JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla on Thursday led a Candle light protest march against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as an MP, calling the Centre’s move undemocratic, unconstitutional, and unparliamentary.
The protest was organised by J&K Congress Sewa Dal under leadership of its President Vijay Sharma Babbi. The March started from Satwari Chowk and passed through various Bazzars and culminated at Mahatma Gandhi Chowk Satwari.
Speaking on the occasion, Bhalla said that disqualifying Rahul Gandhi is an attempt to instill fear in people to show that anything can happen if you go against the government, or the BJP. “His sentencing in the 2019 defamation case over the Modi surname remark was maximized so that he could be disqualified,” Bhalla said.
He said this is an act to distract the nation from the Adani issue. “Freedom of speech is being curbed in India. India is a democracy and Rahul Gandhi should have been allowed to put his point in the parliament,” said Bhalla.
Countering the BJP’s charge that Rahul Gandhi insulted , Bhalla asked how a leader whose family has “given its blood to nurture democracy” and who has walked thousands of kilometres from Kanyakumari to Kashmir with a message of unity could insult the country or a certain community.
The congress leader further said that the Party under Rahul Gandhi has been protesting against flawed GST, price hikes and unemployment. He said Rahul Gandhi’s family’s blood has nurtured democracy in this country. Congress has done a lot for this country’s democracy.
Slamming the BJP over its charge that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs with his remark for which he has been convicted in a criminal defamation case, Bhalla said why is the ruling party pained if fugitives such as Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised. “Rahul Gandhi is fighting for the people of this country, for the women, for the youth, fighting against unemployment and inflation,” he said.
Charging that institutions are being attacked in the country, Bhalla said it is time for “all democratic forces to get together”. Dubbing Gandhi’s disqualification as a “murder of democracy”, he charged that the BJP labels anyone who raises their voice against it as “anti-nationals” and distorts their public image through social media.“Rahul Gandhi is someone whose grandmother and father sacrificed their lives for the sake of the nation,” he added.
