Rafale deal: BJP’s all-India protest on Saturday to seek Rahul’s apology

The BJP will hold a nationwide protest on Saturday to seek Rahul Gandhi’s apology as it asserted on Friday that the Supreme Court’s reiteration of its clean chit to the Modi government in the Rafale deal case has exposed the Congress leader and his party’s “lies”.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Bhupender Yadav told reporters that an ideological battle is acceptable in a democracy but the way Gandhi resorted to “lies” and was forced to tender an apology in the apex court for misquoting it has left him with no choice but to apologise to the nation as well.

For the first time a national leader had to tender an apology in the Supreme Court, he claimed, adding that Gandhi was the Congress president then.