GUWAHATI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday expressed regret for having attributed remarks suggesting corruption by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Supreme Court. Submitting his reply to the Supreme Court on a notice issued by the top court in a contempt case filed by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, Rahul admitted that the comments he attributed to the top court were never made.
In his reply in the SC, Rahul Gandhi said "my statements were used and misused by the political opponents." and that he "gave the statements in the heat of the political campaigning."
Additionally, he has issued an undertaking promising never to “attribute any views, observations or findings to the court in political addresses to the media and in public speeches, unless such views, observations or findings are recorded by the Court.”
{{sbSNJC3sxxiPgyG_7Hig}}
Lekhi dragged the Congress president to court over his statement following the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Rafale deal case. On April 10, the Supreme Court had ruled that documents submitted by the petitioners were admissible as evidence. The court’s ruling came overriding the Centre’s objections on grounds that the documents submitted by the petitioners were stolen and hence inadmissible as evidence.
Following the ruling, Rahul claimed said that the Supreme Court had vindicated his stand by accepting that the Rafale deal involved corruption.
“Supreme Court has made it clear that chowkidar allowed the theft. SC has accepted that some sort of corruption took place in the Rafale deal,” Rahul had told reporters in Amethi.
The contempt case against the Congress president is listed for hearing on Tuesday.
{{PY1zPtpmQWsDNr3Mi8jM}}
