Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Gidugu Rudra Raju on Wednesday alleged that the BJP government at the Centre had unleashed a politics of vendetta against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who was troubling the ruling party by questioning its failures on all counts.
The APCC president was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a ‘Mouna Satyagraha’ (silent protest) staged by the party at Dharna Chowk. “It is unfortunate that the BJP is resorting to misuse of power and has reduced Central agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate to pawns in its hands,” Mr. Rudra Raju alleged, adding that if the the need arose, every Congress leader and cadre was ready to lay down his/her life for Rahul Gandhi.
The State Congress chief said Rahul Gandhi was “being targeted for a statement he made in 2019. Awarding two years of imprisonment in such a case was unheard of in the 165-year-old history of the Indian Penal Code. He said the BJP’s “autocratic rule” was a threat to the unity and sovereignty of the country.
