MK Stalin Seeks Free up Of Rajiv Gandhi Case Convicts; No, Says Congress

Chennai:

The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Friday mentioned it does now not trust Leader Minister MK Stalin challenging the centre to set unfastened the seven Rajiv Gandhi assassination case existence convicts and denounced what it known as ”political force”.

An afternoon after Mr Stalin wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind in search of orders to liberate the convicts straight away, TNCC president KS Alagiri mentioned his party does now not concur with the Leader Minister in this factor and him writing to the President.

“We don’t comply with it,” Mr Alagiri advised journalists over the call for and Mr Stalin writing to President Kovind urging the discharge of convicts.

After paying floral tributes to a portrait of Rajiv Gandhi at the former High Minister’s 30th demise anniversary on the party headquarters right here, Mr Alagiri mentioned convicts must now not be differentiated on any foundation: be it faith, caste, language or race.

Most effective the courts must award punishment for the accountable and likewise set convicts unfastened and there will have to be “no political force” on such issues and that is the stand of TNCC, he mentioned.

Political force on such problems would in long run result in “a number of unwanted happenings in society and there could be no regulation and order”, he mentioned.

If the basis for in search of liberate of Rajiv case convicts was once that they had been Tamils and if the similar yardstick was once implemented to all Tamils who’ve spent over 20-25 years in jails, it would then be a humanitarian flooring for in search of early liberate, he mentioned.

Alternatively, when this argument was once used just for securing the discharge of 7 Rajiv case prisoners, it does now not seem to be simply and therefore unacceptable, he mentioned. “The Congress party does now not welcome it and does now not need it (liberate of Rajiv case prisoners).”

Over 100 Tamil prisoners had been languishing in prisons in Tamil Nadu for over 25 years, he mentioned, it seems that questioning why the federal government sought after the discharge of best seven of them.

Requested about Congress chief Rahul Gandhi months in the past pointing out that he had forgiven the ones answerable for the killing of his father Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, Mr Alagiri mentioned pardoning was once something and liberate of convicts was once some other factor.

“The courtroom is not going to settle for if an aggrieved particular person forgives one discovered accountable.”

Leader Minister MK Stalin, in the meantime, paid floral tributes to a portrait of Rajiv Gandhi in Tiruchirappalli.

Led by way of the Leader Minister, executive officers took the anti-terrorism pledge in Madurai at the demise anniversary of former High Minister Rajiv Gandhi, which is seen as anti-terrorism day.

Leader Secretary V Iraianbu and all different executive officers in a similar fashion took the pledge.

Rajiv Gandhi was once assassinated on Might 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur close to right here by way of a girl suicide bomber Dhanu at an election rally of the Congress party.

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