New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi in an affidavit Wednesday tendered his ‘unconditional apology’ to the Supreme Court for unintentionally linking the top court in the Rafale review plea to his party’s political slogan ‘chowkidar chor hai’ aimed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Gandhi filed the three-page affidavit rendering the ‘unconditional apology’. He also requested the top court to close the contempt proceedings against him based on a petition filed by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the matter Friday.
The Congress chief April 30 had promised to apologise in a fresh affidavit, for wrongly attributing the ‘Chowkidar chor hai’ remark to the Supreme Court. His original affidavit had only expressed regret. According to the BJP it was nowhere near an unqualified apology that was required for his comments.
“(Rahul Gandhi) unconditionally apologises for the wrongful attributions to this Hon’ble Court. The Deponent further states that any such attributions were entirely unintentional, non-willful and inadvertent,” the new affidavit said. Rahul added that ‘he holds the court in the highest esteem and respect’ and ‘never sought or intended to, directly or indirectly, commit any act that interferes with the process of administration of justice’.
Rahul however earlier had clarified that he in no way was apologising to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his comment. He had also said that he will never be sorry for making the ‘chowkidar chor hai’ comment.