‘What greater message than OBC being made Rajasthan CM thrice’: Gehlot slams BJP for ‘OBC insult’ cost

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Sunday slammed the BJP over its cost that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs together with his comment in 2019, and mentioned his occasion has accomplished lots for backward courses which embrace making an OBC chief like him CM thrice.

Gandhi was on Thursday sentenced to 2 years in jail by a Surat court docket in a 2019 felony defamation case over his “why all thieves have Modi surname” comment.

Several BJP leaders, together with occasion chief J P Nadda, have accused Gandhi of insulting Other Backward Classes (OBCs) by means of his comment.

Addressing a gathering on the daylong “Sankalp Satyagraha” of the Congress on the Rajghat, Gehlot mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried out an “experiment” in Gujarat polls in 2017 by saying {that a} Congress chief abused him about his caste.

And in a repeat of that, the BJP is claiming once more earlier than elections that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs, Gehlot mentioned, “In 2017, when the BJP was losing the Gujarat elections, Modi ji played the OBC card against the Congress there. The BJP today again wants to run a campaign to mislead the OBCs,” he alleged.

Are fugitives like Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi OBCs, he requested.

“You are protecting fugitives such as Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi, and then saying Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs,” he mentioned.

Gehlot mentioned can anybody neglect what the Congress has accomplished for OBCs and SCs and STs. “I have been made CM for the third time by Sonia ji, Rahul ji. I am an OBC. There is only one member of OBC Mali community (in the assembly) and that is me,” he mentioned.

Gehlot mentioned what “bigger message” could possibly be for the OBCs there than him being made chief minister time and again.

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel can be comes from the OBC group, he identified.

Elections are coming and that’s the reason they’re elevating this bogey of OBC insult, he alleged.

“It is baseless.” He mentioned the sacrifices of the Gandhi household are earlier than everybody and Rahul Gandhi is continually elevating the problem of unemployment and excessive costs.

“They could not answer on allegations raised in Parliament by Rahul Gandhi. I have never seen before that allegations are raised but instead of answering, the prime minister has taken a vow of silence,” Gehlot mentioned.

The BJP raised allegations towards Gandhi for his remarks overseas, when he mentioned what he had been saying within the nation, he mentioned.

It is the PM who ought to reply and apologise, Gehlot mentioned.

“Rahul Gandhi has emerged as the voice of the country. We will keep fighting to ensure that democracy is kept alive in the country,” he mentioned.

Gandhi was on Thursday sentenced to 2 years in jail by a Surat court docket in a 2019 felony defamation case over his “why all thieves have Modi surname” comment.

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