Rahul ‘mercilessly attacked’ for raising questions, says Priyanka Gandhi

Wayanad: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday made a scathing attack against the Centre and charged that the whole BJP dispensation was “mercilessly attacking” her brother Rahul Gandhi, and that the Prime Minister himself found it appropriate to malign him just because he asks questions.
Addressing a mass public meeting organised by UDF workers here, she said Rahul’s future as Wayanad MP was now in the hands of the court.
She said it was a strange thing for her to know that for the time being he has been disqualified from even fighting another election for eight years.
Also Read BJP wants to avoid Adani questions, PM silent on him: Priyanka Gandhi Stressing that it was the duty of a Parliamentarian to ask questions, to demand accountability and to raise issues, Priyanka also said it was a right enshrined in the Constitution that we are free to express ourselves, free to ask, free to debate and free to dissent.
“I find it is even stranger that the whole government, every minister, every MP and even the Prime Minister himself finds it acceptable and appropriate to malign and mercilessly attack one man just because he asks the questions they cannot respond to,” she said.
Without naming anyone, she said truth was an uncomfortable thing “especially for those who lie and those who unleash an industrial scale of propaganda” against anyone who dares to question them.