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| Furious is Sonia Gandhi camp | | Campaign against Rahul Gandhi termed as 'nasty' | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, FEB. 3: In the absence of any specific guidelines from Sonia Gandhi on how to go about it, the Congress leaders are left with no choice but to decline to comment on the issue arisng from what is termed as "perverted and nasty" campaign against Rahul Gandhi. Two developments are worth taking note of--first, Sonia Gandhi does not want to come out in the open in defence of her son, and, second, most Congress leaders are of the view that it is too hot an issue to comment upon.
Political observers attach much importance to a cyber campaign against Rahul Gandhi ahead of crucial Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, where he is going to be the Congress party's star campaigner. So far, all that the Congress high command has done is in the shape of a legal suit filed against a US-based website over what is said to be a "scurrilous" campaign against Rahul Gandhi.
Abhishek Singhvi, who is Rahul's lawyer, has sent a legal notice to two people-- Rohit Vyassman and E Z Bode who are apparently behind the blog that makes unsubstantiated and disparaging charges against the Amethi MP and his activities in his constituency. Singhvi said: "It is high time that civil society took note of this dirty campaign".
Congress leaders admit that such personal campaigns against Rahul had increased ever since media reports suggested that he would lead the Congress campaign in Uttar Pradesh. Although the news item has been on the US-based website--Hinduunity.org, which claims to be the official website of the Bajrang Dal-- for sometime, the legal notice was sent only early this week. Singhvi said that it took a week's investigation to come across the names supposed to be behind the blog.
Incidentally, several websites, mostly foreign, have picked up the news item. The Sonia Gandhi family is reported to be furious at a "perverted and nasty" campaign against the 36-year-old bachelor MP. Although the campaign and the blogs had been brought to the notice of many senior Congress leaders, they were reluctant to respond to it earlier. A Congress leader, pleading anonymity, said: "No sensible Congress leader would make a comment nor would they take a pro-active role to counter it. One never knows when the issue could boomerang".
Earlier, the US magazine, Newsweek, had to apologise after it claimed that Rahul Gandhi was not even a graduate and that he had never held a steady job in a multinational company as he claimed. Singhvi had sent a legal notice to the magazine challenging the report.
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