A three-month pregnant journalist, who alleged Congress MP Rahul Gandhi had pushed her at the anti-ECI protest in Delhi yesterday, has in an exclusive interview with NDTV strongly criticised what she called was an attempt by the Congress leader’s supporters to downplay the ordeal she faced.
“The Congress is doing shameful work by trying to pull me down. Shame on them. They cannot shut my mouth. They should come and see me, and provide assistance. “Right after he pushed and yanked me, he struck my cameraperson hard. You must have seen it all clearly in the video. “They (Congress) should come and see me and they should provide aid to me. The BJP people came to ask about me.
“Rahul Gandhi’s people started shouting ‘Rahul Gandhi zindabad’ so that my voice wouldn’t be heard after he pushed me and I fell… Because i revealed only yesterday that I am pregnant, no X-ray has been done.
No X-ray has been done,” Parashar told NDTV. However, the grainy and shaky video which showed Rahul Gandhi and Parashar in the crowd does not clearly establish that he had pushed or pulled her, the Congress has said. Parashar told NDTV that was not the case. “It is so very clearly visible in the video,” she said. The person wearing the yellow cap is my cameraperson; he was shoved,” she said. Instead of asking how I was doing or offering assistance, like helping me with some water, they were confronting me, calling me a liar,” Parashar said. Else my team could not have sent me to the field, although my doctor has said that I was fine, that I can do reporting, and that I can do whatever journalism work I am doing. I was doing it with the suggestions of my doctor,” Parashar said.
