False report on Sonia's asset is a conspiracy: Ibrahim Kodichal

December 4, 2013

Mangalore, Dec 4: Taking offence to the reports in the media claiming that Congress national president Sonia Gandhi was richer than Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee president in-charge Ibrahim Kodichal said that the reports were false and part of a conspiracy against the Congress leader.

Speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday, he said that it was saddening that such false claims were made that the party's national leader had assets worth over Rs 12,000 crores in a leading American news website two days ago.

It is essential to check the authenticity of the claim before publishing it as a news report. It is wrong to publish news without testing its legitimacy, he said, condemning the claim.

He went on to say that Mrs Gandhi could have easily become the President or the Prime Minister of the country, but had sacrificed the positions for Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee. False reports should not be encouraged by media houses, which should check the authenticity of the news before publishing them, he said.

However, the American website deleted the name of Sonia Gandhi from the list of richest leaders of the world on Tuesday, shortly after the Congress derided the website and questioned the authenticity of the figure.

Congress leader Ivan D'Souza and others were present in the press conference.

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Brahmin Savarkar was non-veg eater; wasn't against cow slaughter: Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao

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October 3,2024

Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao reminded that V D Savarkar was not against cow slaughter as he himself was non-veg eater, PTI reported on Thursday.

"As a Brahmin he was eating meat, and he was openly propagating eating meat," said the minister at an event in Bengaluru.

Reacting to Gundu Rao's claim, BJP MP Anurag Thakur called Congress a "factory of lies" as he warned that India won't tolerate any disrespect towards Savarkar.

"By disrespecting Veer Savarkar they have shown that they don't respect freedom fighters. During the Congress government, Sardar Bhagat Singh was termed a separatist in textbooks...By making those who want to break the nation join the congress party, Rahul Gandhi is taking forward the ideology of 'tukde tukde' and he is a 'modern Jinnah' who speaks ill of the country abroad...," he said.

Meanwhile, a court in Maharashtra's Nashik district summoned Congress MP Rahul Gandhi earlier this week in a defamation case filed against him for his alleged objectionable remarks against the Hindutva ideologue.

The complainant, who is the director of an NGO, claimed he watched a press conference addressed by Gandhi in Hingoli and also a speech made by the Congress leader in November 2022.

He alleged that Gandhi, on the two occasions, by his words and visual representations knowingly harmed the reputation of Veer Savarkar and also tried to defame the latter's image in the society.

According to the complainant, Gandhi said "Savarkar is BJP and RSS jin" which was defamatory in nature.

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