Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad hit back an hour later, accusing Gandhi of resorting to lies to defend a speech he made in London for trying to become a "martyr" to gain political mileage for the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections.
Gandhi made combative remarks at a press conference in the Capital, speaking up directly for the first time since he was disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, and announced he will continue to ask who invested ₹20,000 crore in Adani Group through shell companies and the nature of the PM's relationship with (Gautam) Adani, the chairman of the Adani Group.
"Please understand why I have been disqualified. I have been disqualified because the Prime Minister is scared of my next speech. He is scared of the next speech that is going to come on Adani. I have seen it in his eyes. So, he is terrified of the next speech that is going to come and they don't want that speech to be in Parliament. That is the issue, that is why first the distraction, now the disqualification," he said.
The Congress leader was disqualified after a Surat court convicted him and sentenced him to two years for criminal defamation. Keeping with the law, and a Supreme Court order in 2013, the Lok Sabha secretariat issued a notification saying Gandhi has been disqualified from March 23, the day of the court order.
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