NEW DELHI: A grievance has been filed towards Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over remarks made about President Droupadi Murmu. The grievance, lodged by Muzaffarpur-based lawyer Sudhir Ojha, accuses them of disrespecting India’s highest constitutional authority and seeks authorized motion beneath the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).The case will likely be heard in a Bihar court docket on 10 February.
The controversy erupted following Sonia Gandhi’s remark after the President’s tackle to Parliament forward of the Price range session. Chatting with reporters, the previous Congress chief remarked, “The President was getting very tired by the end… she could hardly speak, poor thing.” Rahul Gandhi, in a separate clip, dismissed the speech as “boring,” whereas Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was additionally current in the course of the alternate.
The Rashtrapati Bhavan responded strongly, calling the remarks “unacceptable” and asserting that Murmu was not drained. In an official assertion, the President’s workplace stated, “Some prominent leaders of the Congress party have made comments that clearly hurt the dignity of the high office, and therefore are unacceptable.” The assertion additional clarified that Murmu was absolutely composed all through her speech and that talking for marginalised communities “can never be tiring.”
The remarks triggered a pointy political backlash, with the BJP launching an all-out assault towards the Congress. Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the celebration’s “shahi parivar” (royal household) of insulting Murmu, a tribal chief. Talking at a rally in Delhi, he stated, “One member called her speech ‘boring,’ and another went further, calling her ‘poor’ and ‘tired.’ This is an insult to 10 crore tribal brothers and sisters and every poor person who has risen from the ground.” BJP chief JP Nadda additionally criticised Sonia Gandhi’s alternative of phrases, calling them “deeply disrespectful.”
A number of NDA ministers demanded an apology from Sonia Gandhi, with Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju main the cost. “The Congress must apologise to the nation and the President for this insult,” Rijiju stated.
Congress leaders, nonetheless, defended Sonia Gandhi, alleging that the BJP was twisting her phrases for political acquire. Get together president Mallikarjun Kharge countered by mentioning that the federal government had disrespected President Murmu by not inviting her to the inauguration of the brand new Parliament constructing and the Ram temple in Ayodhya. “The BJP had deliberately kept our current President and the previous President away from these historic moments,” Kharge stated.
Priyanka Gandhi additionally got here to her mom’s defence, insisting that Sonia Gandhi had the “utmost respect” for Murmu and that her feedback had been being misrepresented. “My mother simply said that the President must have been tired after such a long speech. It is unfortunate that the media twisted her words,” she said.
Because the political storm intensifies, the Bihar court docket’s determination on 10 February will decide the authorized plan of action towards the Congress leaders. In the meantime, the controversy continues to be a focus within the BJP’s ongoing marketing campaign towards the opposition.
