A three-month pregnant journalist has alleged that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi pushed and pulled her hand aggressively on the Supreme Court premises yesterday during the Opposition protest over the SIR exercise. The Congress has denied such an incident had ever happened, and called it a propaganda cooked up by the BJP.
She also alleged the Congress MP pushed her cameraman, who fell on top of her followed by four-five others, amid the chaos of the protest by the Opposition bloc INDIA seeking the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. “I was inside the Supreme Court premises, positioned right by a gate, waiting for him to exit so I could get a soundbite, specifically from Rahul Gandhi… I extended the mic; he gestured for me to move it away, so I did. “Before I could fully process what was happening – my cameraperson was behind me – Rahul Gandhi moved forward with a very unpleasant expression. Suddenly, he grabbed my hand – right here – and yanked me forward. He pulled me so hard, and then – it all happened so fast – his bodyguards shoved me away. “Rahul Gandhi, who speaks of ‘smashing the patriarchy,’ behaved like a goon.
You know the Supreme Court entrance has a few steps – two or three, I couldn’t count exactly due to the crowd, and I fell face-first onto them,” Parashar, who said she is three-months pregnant, told the visitors in the hospital room.
But then I saw other mics being thrust forward, and since it was my job – I was on assignment – I moved my mic back in,” Parashar said from her hospital bed. The women of this country should see the true face of the Congress party and the reality behind Priyanka Vadra’s slogan of ‘ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon’,” Bhandari, who along with other party leaders went to the hospital to meet the journalist, told reporters this morning.
She posted a video of the incident, which Congress leaders and supporters pointed out did not clearly showed what she claimed had happened.
She said her voice could be heard in the recording. “I spoke to him very politely, and I find it hard to believe – he is the Leader of the Opposition after all… when it happened I felt like I wouldn’t be able to breathe anymore,” Parashar said.
