Not one to mince words where it comes to calling out a spade, Congress leader Jignesh Mevani sneered at the ruling BJP for “using a woman” to “frame a case” against him. The Dalit leader was finally released on bail Saturday morning and lambasted the BJP for doing a “cowardly thing.”
Mevani was arrested in the alleged assault case on April 25 just hours after he was granted bail by another court in Assam, in a case over tweets on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“My arrest was not a simple matter. It must have been done under the instruction of political bosses at the PMO (Prime Minister’s Office),” Mevani told reporters.
“I am still proud of my tweet. In the tweet, I basically asked the Prime Minister to maintain peace and harmony with the rising cases of communal clashes. As a citizen of India, I have my rights to ask this. As a lawmaker what’s our duty? It is to urge people to maintain peace, so that’s what I did,” he added.
“And in the second case, a story was framed to malign my character. The government comprises cowards to have taken refuge behind a woman’s name to put me behind bars,” the Gujarat MLA said.
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