NEW DELHI: Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday declared that the Opposition “will spare no one” involved in undermining the nation’s democratic institutions, as he lashed out at Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar for being “scared” to meet nearly 300 parliamentarians stopped outside Nirvachan Sadan.
Speaking to reporters, Rahul Gandhi questioned the state of Indian democracy if constitutional authorities refuse to engage with elected representatives.
“A short while ago, nearly 300 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs came here. We wanted to meet Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and his two colleagues. The police stopped us here. We are the nation’s representatives; we represent the voice of the country. I don’t know why 300 MPs were stopped, and after that, they have made us sit here. The Election Commission is barely 50 yards away, but they are not letting us go… We will spare no one,” Rahul Gandhi said.
Reaffirming the Opposition’s resolve to challenge the ruling establishment, the Lok Sabha LoP asserted that the opposition was standing at the EC’s door to save democracy.
“We are not only countering them (BJP); we will destroy them. I have no interest in what the BJP says. I am standing here to save democracy in India. Along with me, 300 MPs, who also want to save democracy, had come here. Amit Shah, Narendra Modi, Mohan Bhagwat, and Gyanesh Kumar have destroyed democracy in the country. The whole country agrees with this. The youth of the nation understand and agree with it. Even the police personnel agree with it. Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Mohan Bhagwat have hijacked the nation through ‘vote chori’, and Gyanesh Kumar has helped them. Action will be taken against all of them. What has been done to our country is called treason; nobody is going to escape.”
