Rahul Gandhi Fighting Battle for People’s Welfare, While ‘Arrogant Regime’ Using All Means To Deter Him: Priyanka Gandhi

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 7th July. Rahul Gandhi is fighting for the truth and the interests of the people against an “arrogant regime” that is using every trick in the book to silence the questions he is raising, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Friday, after the Gujarat High Court denied her brother’s request for a stay of his conviction in a criminal defamation case.

While dismissing the petition, Justice Hemant Prachchhak noted that Gandhi was already facing 10 criminal cases across India, and that the lower court’s decision to sentence Gandhi to two years in prison for his “Modi surname” statement was “just, proper, and legal.”

Priyanka Gandhi made a harsh attack on the Modi government in a lengthy Twitter post in Hindi, quoting Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’s poem “samar shesh hai…(battle is yet to be over)”.

Rahul Gandhi is fighting the battle for truth and people’s interests against this “arrogant regime”, she said.

“The arrogant regime wants that questions related with people’s interest should not be raised, the arrogant regime wants that questions that improve the lives of the people of the country should not be raised, the arrogant regime wants that they are not asked questions on inflation, employment, no voice is raised for the welfare of the farmers, there should be no talk of the rights of women, the question of labourers’ honour should not be raised,” Priyanka Gandhi said.

“The arrogant regime is trying every trick in the book to suppress the truth, it is adopting all means — ‘saam, daam, dand, bhed, chal, kapat (money power, punishment, discrimination, deceit)’ — to distract from questions related to the interests of the public,” she said.

Priyanka Gandhi asserted before truth, satyagraha and the power of the people, neither the “arrogance of power” will last nor the veil of lies over the truth will continue.

“Rahul Gandhi ji has ignited the beacon of questions related to the interests of the public in front of this arrogant regime,” she said.

For this cause, Rahul Gandhi is ready to pay any price and despite all the attacks and tactics of the arrogant BJP government, like a true patriot, he has not shied away from raising questions related to the people, the Congress general secretary said.

He is resolutely on the path of sharing the pain of the people, Priyanka Gandhi said.

“Truth will win. The voice of the public will win,” she asserted.

The Congress has said that it will likely file an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging the Gujarat High Court’s decision to dismiss Rahul Gandhi’s plea for a stay of his conviction in the criminal defamation case stemming from his “Modi surname” statement.