Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury has said that she will be filing a defamation case against PM Modi over his alleged 'Surpanakha' remark made in Parliament back in 2018. The ex-MP took to Twitter to share a video of Modi's speech where he linked her laughter to the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Chowdhury wrote, "This classless megalonaniac referred to me as Surpanakha on the floor of the house. I will file a defamation case against him. Let's see how fast courts will act now." In the video, PM Modi purportedly addresses other BJP parliamentarians where he asks them to let Chowdhury continue speaking as since the Ramayana serial, it is only today that they have got the privilege to hear the same famous laughter.
Chowdhury's charge against PM Modi comes amid the guilty verdict handed by a Surat court against Rahul Gandhi in the 2019 criminal defamation case over his Modi surname remark. He was disqualified as a lawmaker after a Surat court found him guilty of defamation and sentenced him to two years in prison, according to a Parliament notice.
The case was filed against Gandhi for his alleged “how come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?” comments on a complaint lodged by BJP MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi. The court granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to allow him to appeal in a higher court, the Congress leader's lawyer Babu Mangukiya said.
The Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad made the remarks while addressing a rally at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019, during Lok Sabha poll campaigning.
