BJP says Rahul ‘liar of first order’ after his regret in SC on Rafale

New Delhi, April 22

The BJP demanded an apology from Rahul Gandhi saying he is “liar of the first order” in public opinion after the Congress president expressed regret in the Supreme Court on Monday over his remarks in connection with the Rafale judgment.

The apex court on April 15 had given a categorical clarification that in its Rafale judgment there was no occasion for it to make a mention of the contemptuous observation that “Chowkidar Narendra Modi chor hai” as has been attributed to it by Gandhi.

Addressing a press conference here, BJP spokesperson GVL Narsimha Rao said, “Today, by filing an affidavit in the honourable SC, Rahul Gandhi accepted that he had lied on his allegations against PM Modi on the Rafale deal.”

“This was an attempt by Rahul Gandhi to manufacture a lie and create a controversy in the Rafale deal... He should apologise to the people of this country,” he added.

“In public opinion, Rahul Gandhi is a liar of the first order,” Rao said.

Gandhi, who filed an affidavit in response to the apex court’s April 15 order, said he had made the statement in the heat of political campaigning which had been misused by his opponents. He said he had no intention to lower the dignity of the apex court.

He, however, alleged that the Prime Minister, too, had used the SC judgment in the Rafale case to claim that the government had been given a “clean chit” in the matter. PTI