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. She posted a video of the incident, which Congress leaders and supporters pointed out did not clearly showed what she claimed had happened. “Protest during pregnancy carries risk. Her sister reached the BJP MLA’s office to manufacture propaganda.
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. They say Rahul Gandhi pushed her at 3-4 pm and then they say she went to hospital at 8.30 pm.
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. Congress leader Alka Lamba in a post on X refuted the journalist’s allegations, citing what she claimed were inconsistencies in the sequence of events, and called the BJP “shameless”. She underwent an X-ray which is usually not done during pregnancy,” Lamba said in the post on X.
