Conspiracy within Congress to 'sacrifice' Rahul Gandhi: BJP leader
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Bengaluru: Senior BJP leader from Karnataka, Lahar Singh Siroya, alleged that a conspiracy is going on within the Congress itself to weaken, mislead and make Rahul Gandhi a sacrificial goat, NDTV reported.
According to him, Rahul's advisors are working against his interests while the controversy of his conviction in the defamation case and disqualification from the Lok Sabha lingers.
He claimed that Rahul Gandhi is a person with a clean heart, but his advisors are misleading him.
Further, he denied allegations that BJP was being vicious against Rahul. He claimed that his party, BJP, wanted Rahul Gandhi back in his MP seat and prepared for debates in Parliament.
Adding to that, he narrated how Rahul's grandmother and India's former prime minister Indira Gandhi got disqualified as an MP, but a court stayed her disqualification.
Indira approached the Supreme Court and acquired a stay on her disqualification and went on to become the prime minister of the country.
He wondered why Rahul Gandhi was saying he had no home and he will vacate his bungalow. "When Indira ji lost in 1977, and she was not MP in 1988, she requested (former Prime Minister) Morarji Desai for accommodation. He immediately allowed her request and gave her one at 12 Willingdon Crescent," NDTV quoted the BJP leader.
He continued that Rahul, as an ex-MP, could have used other ways. In the place of advising him to ask for an extension or working on reversing his disqualification, his advisors are telling him to go to a higher court. Congress has the "G-23 problem, many top leaders have quit the party, and how much lower the members wanted to drag the party, he wondered.