New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after a Gujarat court fined Vansda MLA Anant Patel Rs 99 in a 2017 case related to tear a photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In a jibe against the saffron party, Surjewala said that every citizen of the nation should be gagged or seek permission from the BJP to speak.
“How has our country become? How are the courts giving decisions? Does it not know about Article 19 (freedom of speech) in the constitution? Now every citizen in the country should be gagged. First go to BJP office, ask for permission to speak and say if you are allowed otherwise keep quiet,” said Surjewala.
कैसा बन गया है हमारा देश ?
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क्या उन्हें संविधान में धारा 19 (बोलने की आज़ादी) की जानकारी नहीं ?
अब देश में हर नागरिक के मुँह पर पट्टी बांध देनी चाहिए।
पहले BJP के ऑफिस जाओ,
पूछो ये बोलना है,
इजाज़त मिले तो बोलो,
वरना चुप रहो। https://t.co/qGBenmkfGM— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) March 28, 2023
Why Congress MLA was fined?
The Congress MLA from Vansda (Sceheduled Caste) seat is accused of barging into a chamber of the Vice chancellor of Navsari Agriculture University during a student protest where he tore up a picture of PM Modi.
The Jalalpore police in May 2017 booked Anant Patel along with six others including the Youth Congress workers were booked under IPC Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 353 (assault), 427 (mischief causing loss of ₹ 50 upwards), 447 (criminal trespass) and 504 (intentional insult).
In the latest, the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate VA Dhadhal found them guilty under Section 447 of the Indian Penal Code for criminal trespass. They have been charged of paying a certain amount. They will have to spend 7 days in jail on failing to pay the fine.
