Nitin Gadkari Sends Legal Notice to Kharge, Ramesh

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari sent a legal notice to Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and General Secretary Jairam Ramesh for spreading rumors about him. The BJP blames Congress leaders for releasing a 19-second video clip from Gadkari’s interview with India Today’s Lallantop, accusing them of using it to harm his image.

Villages, poor, labourers and farmers are unhappy…The villages do not have good roads, there is no water to drink, there are no good hospitals, and there are no good schools.”

Congress leaders shared a 19-second clip showing Nitin Gadkari discussing poor farmers and villagers. The union minister said that villagers, the poor, labourers, and farmers are unhappy.

Congress leaders removed the segment of the video where Gadkari discussed the problem of rural-urban migration before sharing it. It also removed the part in which he discusses the steps the NDA administration is taking to improve the lives of farmers, labourers, and the poor.

According to India Today, the notice accuses the Congress leaders of hiding the overall meaning and context of Gadkari’s interview with the “intent to create confusion, sensation, and disrepute” for the Union Minister and to “build fissure and rift” within the party.

The lawyer in the notice claims that the Congress leaders

inspite of knowing the full content of my client’s interview… deliberately posted the Hindi captions and video by concealing the contextual meaning of the interaction, which is deliberate and malicious to malign the reputation of my client.

In addition, the legal notice requests that the posts be taken down from the platform within a day and that Gadkari receive a formal apology within three days. Gadkari would take all appropriate legal measures, including civil and criminal, against the Congress leaders if they did not cooperate.

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