BJP state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar has hit back at Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan, saying he will not stop calling Rahul Gandhi a fraudster unless he apologizes to Prime Minister Modi over the controversies surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters’ list and the Chief Election Commissioner issue.
When Kerala state BJP president Chandrasekharan recently spoke, he criticized Rahul Gandhi, saying that the people of the country had rejected the Congress because of corruption, appeasement politics, stagnation in development, and unemployment, and that the SIR had been introduced to protect democracy. He also lashed out at Rahul Gandhi, calling him a fraud.
Kerala Chief Minister and senior Congress leader V.D. Satheesan had posted on the X social media platform condemning this. In it, he noted that making personal and defamatory remarks against Lok Sabha Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi cannot be considered political criticism.
Responding to this on X, Rajeev Chandrasekhar posted on Sunday. In it, he said that he generally does not criticize opposition leaders personally, but that he cannot do so in Rahul Gandhi’s case. He said that Rahul Gandhi makes defamatory remarks against Prime Minister Modi, the BJP, and the central government, and therefore he has no hesitation in saying that Rahul Gandhi and his politics are built on deceit and corruption, and in calling Rahul Gandhi a fraud.
Chandrasekhar has insisted that Rahul Gandhi should apologize for criticizing Prime Minister Modi as a traitor, and that he should also express regret to the Election Commission for telling lies. He has also said that if V.D. Satheesan makes him do so, he will stop criticizing Rahul Gandhi as a fraud.
Kerala Chief Minister’s attack: Meanwhile, in a post on his X page, Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan has criticized Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, calling him an agent of the BJP and saying he is unfit to continue as Chief Election Commissioner. He said the allegations made by former Kerala Chief Secretary G.G. Thomson that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar had told him to join the BJP are serious, and that no other evidence is needed beyond this to show that Gyanesh Kumar acted as an agent of the BJP.
V.D. Satheesan has said that all the allegations previously made by Rahul Gandhi against Gyanesh Kumar have now been proven true, and therefore Gyanesh Kumar continuing in the post of Chief Election Commissioner is a danger to Indian democracy.
