Deepika Rajawat was Congress member, not chief: Jairam Ramesh

On 18th January 2023, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh dismissed disgraced Kathua-case lawyer turned Congress chief Deepika Singh Rajawat as ‘neta’ over her resignation from the get together throughout Bharat Jodo Yatra. The video of Jairam Ramesh refuting a journalist asking him concerning the resignation of the previous Congress ‘leader’ went viral on social media by which Ramesh asks the journalist how can he name any Congress member a frontrunner.

A journalist requested Jairam Ramesh throughout a media interplay what he would say about Deepika Rajawat – a ‘leader’ from his get together – who not too long ago resigned. Answering this, Jairam Ramesh mentioned, “I will not say anything about this right now. I will talk about this only when I go to Jammu. And let me tell you, she is not a ‘leader’. It is wrong to call everyone a ‘leader’.”

Gajab beijjati of @DeepikaSRajawat 😂

Deepika labored onerous for Congress propaganda however after utilizing her that is how Congress treats ppl. pic.twitter.com/pGoORy7P3k

— Ankur Singh (@iAnkurSingh) January 18, 2023

Jammu and Kashmir Congress spokesperson Deepika Rajawat resigned from the get together on 18th January 2023. Her resignation got here forward of the Jammu and Kashmir leg of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra which is about to enter the Union Territory on January 19. She tweeted, “In view of Choudhary Lal Singh’s proposal of joining Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Indian National Congress allowing the same, I am left with no other option but to resign from INC. Lal Singh was responsible for sabotaging the Kathua rape case in 2018 by brazenly defending rapists. Lal Singh divided the entire region of Jammu & Kashmir to protect the rapists and Bharat Jodo Yatra is ideologically opposite. On ideological grounds, I cannot share the party platform with such a person.” She additionally tagged Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal, and Rajani Patil in her tweet.

Lal Singh divided your entire area of Jammu & Kashmir to guard the rapists and @bharatjodo is ideologically reverse. On ideological grounds, I can not share the get together platform with such an individual. @kcvenugopalmp @Jairam_Ramesh @rajanipatil_in @RahulGandhi

— Deepika Pushkar Nath (@DeepikaSRajawat) January 17, 2023

Advocate Deepika Singh Rajawat turned an in a single day movie star within the media after she appeared as a lawyer for Kathua’s rape and homicide sufferer. The Kathua rape case was high information for a number of weeks within the nation, and Deepika was hailed as a hero of the case. It was argued that if Deepika Singh had not joined the case, the sufferer would have by no means acquired justice.

However, she was later accused of grandstanding by taking over the case the of Kathua rape sufferer’s tragedy however deserting the sufferer’s household in the course of the court docket proceedings. In November 2018, it was revealed that Deepika had attended solely 2 hearings within the case that was being heard by the Pathankot session court docket. Sessions Judge Dr. Tejwinder Singh was listening to the case every day as per Supreme Court order, and a complete of 110 hearings had taken place already within the 5 and a half months. But the movie star lawyer, who was supposed to steer the battle for justice for the sufferer, attended solely 2 of those hearings.

Subsequently, an affidavit was filed on the Pathankot classes court docket by the sufferer’s father, who was additionally the primary complainant of the FIR, saying that Deepika will not be his advocate within the case and he’s withdrawing the facility of lawyer issued to her. According to Yousaf, the sufferer’s father, Deepika Rajawat had mentioned that there was a menace to her life in Pathankot, which was why she couldn’t go there for hearings. In view of this, Yousaf knowledgeable the court docket that he was eradicating Deepika Rajawat from the case.