Rahul Gandhi must prove charge or apologise
If the Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has to reclaim the ground he and his party have lost over the years, he has to shun irresponsible politics and conduct himself maturely. Unfortunately, there are little signs of his doing that. In the past, he had callously flung the suit-boot ki sarkar jibe at the Narendra Modi Government, and had accused the regime of doing khoon ki dalali over the martyrdom of Indian soldiers in the Uri terror attack. The first accusation fell through after the last Union Budget was presented, which offered empowerment and funds to the farming sector on an unprecedented scale. The second came a cropper with a nationwide support for the Government's decision to order surgical strikes deep inside Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after the Uri incident, in which Pakistan-based militants targeted an Indian Army installation. But Rahul Gandhi apparently learnt no lesson. He has now threatened to expose the Prime Minister himself over acts of “personal corruption” on the basis of “bulletproof” evidence he claims to have. He says he has “detailed information” that, when revealed, could lead to a “quake”. These are grave accusations against the country's Prime Minister. Rahul Gandhi ought to make the evidence public or offer an unambiguous apology to not just the Prime Minister but also the people of the country whom he considers to be buffoons, easy enough to mislead through wild accusations.
While levelling the charge, the Congress leader also claimed that the Treasury benches did not allow him to speak in the lok Sabha because they were scared of him. Indeed, he added that the Prime Minister was personally “terrified” of the contents he had. In other words, Prime Minister Modi knows of the so-called explosive material Rahul Gandhi possesses! There is a limit to nonsense. Besides, the Winter Session was on for a month, and the Congress vice president did nothing in that period to place the evidence of the Prime Minister's ‘personal corruption’ before the lok Sabha. Instead, his party disrupted the proceedings of the House on the issue of the Government's demonetisation decision, and did not allow anybody, including Ministers, to speak. The Congress held Parliament hostage for weeks because it wanted a debate with voting provisions. later, realising that it was getting nowhere, and suddenly because Rahul Gandhi wanted to trigger a ‘quake', the party agreed to a discussion without the voting rule. It was too late by then.
Why was Rahul Gandhi so intent on placing his evidence before ParliamentIJ He should have revealed the documents at the Press conference he addressed, and where he promised the quake. He still has the opportunity. Even Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who knows a thing or two about the politics of slander, questioned the Congress vice president's ambiguity, saying that Rahul Gandhi must end his rhetoric and produce proof. The Congress scion must follow the proceedings that are on in the Supreme Court, where lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan accused Modi of involvement in payoffs to politicians during the latter’s term as Gujarat's Chief Minister. The apex court rubbished the ‘evidence’, called it “fictitious”, and asked him to produce something better next time.