Last Updated: April 08, 2023, 17:54 IST
File picture of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. (Image: PTI)
An FIR has been filed in opposition to Manikandan below three Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)
Launching a scathing assault on Congress over its Dindigul district president Manikandan’s “chop off the tongue” comment, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday stated it was not the primary time that the grand outdated social gathering has threatened the judiciary.
The BJP chief’s response got here after a number of Tamil Nadu Congress leaders held a protest in Dindigul the place Manikandan was heard “threatening to cut off the decide’s tongue” who had sentenced social gathering chief Rahul Gandhi to 2 years in jail in a 2019 defamation case. An FIR has been filed in opposition to Manikandan below three Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
“When we are going to come to energy, we are going to chop off the tongue of the decide who delivered the decision to ship our chief Rahul Gandhi to jail,” Manikandan was quoted as saying by information company ANI throughout a protest on April 6.
#WATCH | Tamil Nadu: “When we are going to come to energy, we are going to chop off the tongue of the decide who delivered the decision to ship our chief Rahul Gandhi to jail,” stated Manikandan, Congress Dindigul district president throughout a protest organised by the social gathering on April 6, 2023 pic.twitter.com/a2cO2jt4fm— ANI (@ANI) April 8, 2023
Reacting to Manikandan’s comment, Rijiju was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times to reporters, “This will not be taking place for the primary time that Congress is threatening the judiciary. Even earlier than the Emergency, the Congress individuals attacked the judiciary. They are doing it now additionally as a result of they’re pissed off. We consider within the Constitution.”
Meanwhile, one other Union Minister and BJP chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar known as Congress a “social gathering stuffed with violent components.”
Speaking to ANI, he stated, “It reveals how Congress has fallen from the good outdated days when there have been statesmen in Congress and now it’s a social gathering which is stuffed with violent components and desires to cut off the tongue of judges.”
#WATCH | It reveals how Congress has fallen from the good outdated days when there have been statesmen in Congress & now it’s a social gathering which is stuffed with violent components and desires to cut off the tongue of judges: Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Congress chief Manikandan’s comment pic.twitter.com/EsahTZcCZQ— ANI (@ANI) April 8, 2023
Another BJP chief Amit Malviya additionally got here down closely on Rahul Gandhi and stated, “TN Congress chief says that after the social gathering got here to energy, they might “minimize off the tongue” of the decide who gave the decision in opposition to Rahul Gandhi. Will the Courts take suo motto cognisance and maintain Rahul Gandhi accountable for his social gathering males threatening the judiciary?”
Meanwhile, the Dindigul Police stated they’ve registered a case in opposition to Manikandan below three sections, together with Section 153B of the IPC, and a probe is underway.
Earlier on Tuesday, a scuffle broke out between employees from each events in Kanyakumari’s Nagercoil. The chaos ensued throughout a protest by employees of the Youth Congress in opposition to Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha disqualification.
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