BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said if Rahul Gandhi has the right to ‘disrespect’ or ‘abuse’ someone then anybody who is ‘at dismay’ due to it has the right to file a defamation case against him.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said if Rahul Gandhi has the right to ‘disrespect’ or ‘abuse’ someone then anybody who is ‘at dismay’ due to it has the right to file a defamation case against him.
Prasad was referring to a tweet the Congress MP shared quoting Mahatma Gandhi after Surat court gave a two-year sentence to him over his 2019 comment on ‘Modi surname’.
“The law of India is that if an individual or an organisation has been defamed by a defamatory comments, abuses, scurrilious and scandalous comments, then he has got the right to seek address but Congress has an objection to it,” the BJP MP said at a press conference.
A local court in Surat sentenced Rahul Gandhi over his earlier comment in Karnataka during 2019 Lok Sabha election where he wondered how come ‘all thieves have Modi surnames’. The verdict has been suspended for 30 days, as the Congress MP prepares to appeal against the order.
The BJP MP further alleged that the Congress wants ‘complete freedom’ for Rahul Gandhi to ‘utter abuses’. “The country is ruled by law and it will remain that way,” he added.
Rahul Gandhi shared a post quoting Mahatma Gandhi amid the Surat court’s verdict which talks about ‘truth and non-violence’.