Amit Shah attacks Rahul Gandhi again.
BJP President Amit Shah on Monday attacked Congress President Rahul Gandhi for meeting tainted RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in AIIMS. Amit Shah also branded Rahul Gandhi for allegedly diluting his stance against corruption. This comes on a day when RJD supporters created ruckus inside AIIMS, forcing the hospital to file an FIR with the police. Lalu himself lost his cool in the railways station while he was being sent to Patna from New Delhi.
Amit Shah on campaign trail in poll-bound Karnataka recalled the instance where Rahul Gandhi publicly rejected an ordinance which was to be brought by UPA2 government in 2013 meant to save convicted legislators from disqualification. Rahul Gandhi publicly trashed the proposed ordinance and said it was complete nonsense. After Rahul's intervention, the ordinance was abandoned by UPA2 government. Many experts believed, government's move at that time was to protect Lalu Prasad Yadav. Raking up that instance from 2013, Amit Shah said, " During UPA, Rahul Gandhi had torn the ordinance which could save now fodder scam convict Lalu Yadav. As 2019 is approaching it seems Congress can't win without Lalu ji's support, and today he (Rahul Gandhi) met Lalu ji (in AIIMS)". He further said, ' The same Rahul Gandhi has met and hugged Lalu ji today. Such hypocrites cannot run a non-corrupt government in a state".
Amit Shah was campaigning in Kolar, Karnataka. Congress president Rahul Gandhi met the RJD chief at the AIIMS and enquired about his health. Prasad had been admitted to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi on March 17 over complaints of uneasiness while he was lodged at the Birsa Munda Jail. He has been serving a jail term since December 23.
On March 29, he was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here for specialised treatment. A medical team, comprising six doctors, was set up to decide on the course of his treatment. Prasad, who was kept in a VIP room of the old private ward of the hospital, wrote to the director of AIIMS, saying that he should not be discharged from AIIMS, Delhi, and sent back to RIMS which does not have proper facilities required for his treatment.
Citing various ailments such as heart problems, diabetes, kidney infection, high blood pressure, the RJD supremo, in his letter to the director, said doctors should not act under pressure from "certain individuals or political parties". Urging the AIIMS director to allow him to continue his treatment at the institute till his recovery, Prasad said the AIIMS administration will be held responsible if something untoward happens to him after he is sent back to the hospital in Ranchi.
His party MP Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav alleged that the AIIMS appeared to be acting under the pressure of central agencies like the CBI. "It seems there is a conspiracy to murder him. Why they are discharging him when he is not fit yet," Yadav said. The former Bihar chief minister has been convicted in four fodder scam cases since 2013 -- the latest being the Dumka treasury case, in which a special CBI court sentenced him to 14 years in jail.
With PTI inputs
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