The Congress on Wednesday submitted a police complaint against “open threats” by BJP leaders and its allies to ‘eliminate’ or cause physical injury to the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
The complaint was submitted by Congress Treasurer Ajay Maken at New Delhi’s Tughlak Road Police Station. A copy of the complaint was also sent to the Chief Election Commissioner of India.
Maken, in the letter for FIR, named Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Singh Bittu, Delhi BJP leader Tarvinder Singh Marvah, Shiv Sena (Shinde Sena) leader Sanjay Gaikwad, and UP Minister Raghuraj Singh.
The complaint stated, “The threats issued by various BJP Leaders and its allies, calling for assassination and/or bodily injury onto Rahul Gandhi and also calling the Leader of Opposition of the country a terrorist, exhibits personal hatred by the BJP/ NDA alliance partners against Gandhi and such utterances are made only with the aim to cause unrest among the general masses to provoke rioting, breach of peace etc. through the hate filled remarks.”
The complaint further added, “Shri Rahul Gandhi has been continuously raising issues pertaining to deprived sections of the society such as women, youth, Dalits and other marginalized sections etc. and the failure of the BJP to address such public centric issue. However, the same has not gone down well with the BJP and its allies, therefore the above-named persons have been deputed to make such hate-filled comments on the Leader of Opposition of India.”
Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Bittu called the Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi as the “number one terrorist of the country’ on September 15. The complaint named Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Singh for saying that “Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is the ‘number one terrorist of India’”.
BJP leader Tarvinder Singh Marwah, as per the complaint “openly issued assassination threat against Gandhi” on September 11. The complaint said Marwah had said that if Rahul Gandhi doesn’t mend his ways, he will meet the same fate as his grandmother Indira Gandhi.
According to the complaint, BJP ally Shiv Sena’s MLA Sanjay Gaikwad, who as per the complaint had September 16 “announced a bounty of Rs. 11 lakhs for anyone who will cut the tongue of Rahul Gandhi”.
“In view of the above, the above-named person all connected with a common thread to the ruling BJP, hatched a well-planned criminal conspiracy, with other known/ unknown associates to commit the above acts. Accordingly, I request you to register an FIR, inter-alia, u/s 351, 352, 353, 61 of BNS, at the earliest, against the above-named persons and their associates,” read the complaint submitted by Maken.
(With inputs from agencies)