Rahul Gandhi asks if Delhi Police action linked to his stand on Adani issue

A Delhi Police team met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at his residence as part of an inquiry initiated following his remarks that during his recent Bharat Jodo Yatra, some women had privately approa- ched him and narrated how they were “molested”. The team as- ked him to provide information about the “victims” to take up their complaints, officials have said.

Following this, Gandhi on Sunday sent a “preliminary” response to the Delhi Police, including some inquiries from his side, while promising that a detailed reply to the police questionnaire would be sent in a week’s time, people privy to the development said.

In his initial response to the police queries, Gandhi is learnt to have asked the police whether he being subjected to such questioning, more so after about 45 days, after he made the statement in Srinagar, has anything to do with him taking on PM Modi and his government on a number of issues, including raising the Adani-Hindenburg issue in Parliament. Gandhi, therefore, termed the timing of his ques- tioning intriguing and “unprecedented”.


Congress MP and senior lawyer Abhishek Singhvi is learnt to have framed Gandhi's response. Gandhi is also learnt to have asked why the policemen made it a point to visit him twice within a span of the last three days.

Gandhi asked whether any political campaign by any other political parties or leaders, or the comments they made during such campaigns, including the BJP’s, had ever been put to such scrutiny by the police. There are hints that he might have referred to some statements as examples.

While promising his de- tailed reply, Gandhi reportedly pointed out the efforts and time needed to gather the details of the interactions he has had with those at various places and at dif- ferent times during his Bharat Jodo yatra over five months.