Ghulam Nabi Azad recordsdata defamation swimsuit towards Jiaram Ramesh

Former Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad has slapped his former colleague Jairam Ramesh with a defamation discover for damaging his status by way of the usage of disparaging language.

The latter had reportedly referred to Azad as a ‘slave,’ ‘Mir Jafar,’ and a ‘vote-cutter”. In a notice sent through Azad’s authorized counsel Naresh Kumar Gupta, the previous Congress chief has sought compensation of ₹2 crores for the hurt induced to his status.

The discover acknowledged that Jairam Ramesh deliberately used the title “Ghulam” to indicate “slave,” which was a deliberate try and defame Azad in public.

Defamatory swimsuit of Rs 2 Crores issued on behalf of Ghulam Nabi Azad, to Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh for allegedly utilizing defamatory language towards Azad in his press conferences and social media posts.

— The Times Of India (@timesofindia) February 24, 2023

It emphasised that the Congress General Secretary had dedicated an offence beneath the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 500 (punishment for defamation) and was liable to pay financial compensation.

The discover stated, “…Mr. Jairam Ramesh in an overweeingly and predominantly manner, to quench your thirst with motive to lower down and cause harm to the unblemished life and strong character, integrity made aspersion, imputation by using defamatory language in your statements during press conferences and otherwise also thereby strongly violently criticised directly commenting defamatory remarks.”

“Admittedly, the reputation of my client has been effected, and there are cogent reason to believe, that there had been big conspiracy hatched by you Mr. Jairam Ramesh to tarnish and cause harm to the reputation of Mr. Azad deliberately, intentionally to lower down the reputation in the estimation of public,” it additional underlined.

Former Congress chief and Democratic Progressive Azad Party chairman @ghulamnazad sends a authorized discover to @Jairam_Ramesh for calling him “Mir Jaffar”, “vote cutter” and “slave”. pic.twitter.com/2hgI7jnK0r

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It additional acknowledged that Jairam Ramesh’s statements had induced psychological agony, torture, and harassment to Ghulam Nabi Azad and sought an unconditional apology by way of print-electronic media and social media inside two weeks from the date of receipt of the authorized discover.

Meanwhile, the authorized counsel of Ghulam Nabi Azad knowledgeable that if Ramesh failed to reply throughout the stipulated time, the previous Congress chief would possibly take additional authorized motion towards him.

It should be talked about that the title ‘Mir Jafar’, who betrayed Bengal Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah throughout the battle of Plassey, is synonymous with the phrase ‘traitor’ in Indian historical past.

Ghulam Nabi Azad and his estranged relationship with the Congress social gathering

Azad’s discontentment with Congress grew to become evident when he joined the G-23 insurgent group in Jammu final 12 months. He had additionally showered reward upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and hinted on the lack of ‘reality check’ throughout the Congress.

After being unceremoniously ousted from the disciplinary committee and the social gathering’s listing of star campaigners earlier than the 2022 Punjab elections, the resignation was on the playing cards.

The final nail within the coffin was maybe his ‘downgrade’ appointment to 2 committees of the Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Congress on August 17 this 12 months. In his parting observe, Ghulam Nabi Azad didn’t mince any phrases in holding the Congress excessive command accountable for the social gathering’s downfall.

He squarely blamed Congress scion Rahul Gandhi for single-handedly destroying the consultative mechanism throughout the social gathering. Ghulam Nabi Azad, in his letter, drew consideration to the infantile, immature and non-serious perspective of Rahul Gandhi in direction of Congress and nationwide politics.