Gandhi, who was addressing her party workers ahead of the “Loktantra Bachaao Yatra”, also accused the ruling dispensation of firing false charges against the Congress to cover two years of failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government.
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Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi then courted arrest after being stopped by police from carrying out a march to Parliament barely one kilometer away. They were soon released. The people are watching, they know what is happening.
Last week, Swamy filed a notice challenging the expunging of his naming Congress president Sonia Gandhi and gave a notice for moving Breach of Privilege Motion against Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad over his remarks related to the AgustaWestland issue.
The AgustaWestland issue appeared to be weighing heavily on her mind as Sonia targeted the Modi dispensation accusing it of starting “this game of leveling baseless allegations against leaders of opposition parties”.
The first joint DMK-Congress rally on Thursday had no dearth of amusing moments, making even the leaders on the stage smile. Congress is never going to bow before injustice. She added: “I would like tell them they should not commit the mistake of assuming that the Congress is a weak force”.
“They destabilized the Congress government in Arunachal Pradesh, removed elected leaders & broke all laws”, he said. The Rajya Sabha was adjourned briefly in the pre-lunch session on Friday after Congress members trooped into the well raising anti-government slogans protesting against “assault on democracy”.
Swamy has also sought a discussion in Rajya Sabha over reports that money was allegedly paid to middlemen for managing the Indian media to produce favourable news on the AgustaWestland deal.
“It’s an irony that the Congress party is calling this as a democracy march”.
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu: Comparing Congress” talks over “save democracy’ to devil quoting scriptures, the minister said: “Today Congress is demonstrating outside the Parliament and levelling allegations against us”.
Sonia said that the Congress would not succumb despite attempts “to browbeat the opposition and malign it”.
“There have been many attacks on Congress in the past since 1885 (when it was established)”.
“Does this government imply that high-commissioners and diplomatic heads of different countries wish to meet our leaders in cases of corruption”, asked Scindia. Congress should answer why does trail of all corruption cases lead to you? The Agusta deal can be said to be a part of the series of shady transactions such as the scams relating to 2G spectrum, the Commonwealth Games, the Adarsh housing society or the coal block allocations which characterized Manmohan Singh’s tenure.
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He further alleged that, Modi had a “brushoff meeting” with his Italian counterpart in NY past year, after which India “diluted” its position on the Italian Marines issue and invited AgustaWestland to participate in “Make In India” programme. He said, the government has failed to provide jobs to the youth of the country despite tall claims of generating jobs.
