By Sakshi Dayal
India’s Rahul Gandhi is below police investigation over a scuffle between opposition members of parliament and people from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Social gathering, which injured two lawmakers, police stated on Friday.
Police have been responding to a BJP grievance accusing Gandhi, the opposition chief, of pushing and shoving BJP lawmakers and inflicting accidents to 2 of them on Thursday as they protested exterior parliament home towards opposition events.
Gandhi, the Congress social gathering chief and scion of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty that has produced three prime ministers, already has a number of instances filed towards him.
He was briefly disqualified from parliament final yr after a court docket sentenced him to 2 years’ imprisonment in a defamation case. The Supreme Courtroom suspended the conviction and he was reinstated as a lawmaker.
On Thursday, tv channels confirmed one of many injured lawmakers being taken from the spot in a wheelchair, with a lady urgent a fabric above his left eyebrow, which she lifted briefly to disclose a bleeding wound.
Gandhi denied the allegations, saying BJP members had pushed and threatened him and tried to stop him from getting into parliament throughout the scuffle.
Congress social gathering additionally filed a police grievance on Thursday, alleging BJP lawmakers had misbehaved towards Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
“The primary info report (FIR) towards Rahul Gandhi is being investigated,” stated a senior Delhi Police officer, who requested to not be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media.
“We can be inspecting any footage of the incident,” the officer stated. “We’ve got additionally obtained a grievance from the Congress and are inspecting it. Motion can be taken as required.”
The lawmakers have been present process remedy at a hospital and have been in “higher situation” on Friday, docs instructed information company ANI, by which Reuters has a minority stake.
Gandhi’s sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who can be a lawmaker, stated on Friday the newest police probe indicated the BJP’s “desperation”.
“Your entire nation is seeing… they’ve registered a number of instances towards Rahul. They take out new FIRs, lie… this reveals their degree of desperation,” she instructed reporters.
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, requested in regards to the Congress grievance, instructed a press briefing: “They’re mendacity, making an attempt to mislead folks.”
Each homes of parliament have been adjourned minutes after convening on Friday, ending a winter session disrupted a number of occasions as authorities and opposition events accused one another of making political controversies to hinder legislative enterprise.
This text was produced by Reuters information company. It has not been edited by World South World.
