Nitin Gadkari Serves Legal Notice to Congress Leaders Asking Apology for Sharing Clipped Video from Interview

New Delhi: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari sent a legal notice to Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Jairam Ramesh for sharing a 19-second video clip from his interview on social media. He alleged that the clip was shared with the intent to “create confusion, sensation, and disrepute”.

The legal notice was sent by Gadkari’s advocate, Balendu Shekhar. The notice reads, “While pursuing the said sinister act, my client’s interview has also been twisted, distorted, and presented on your handle ‘X’ by uploading the above video, which is bereft and devoid of contextual meaning. The same has been done deliberately and consciously with a selected piece of Hindi captions.”

Gadkari gave this interview to an online platform, “THE LALLANTOP.

The notice alleges that the Congress leaders were aware of the contents of the interview and deliberately posted the Hindi captions and video by concealing the contextual meaning of the interaction, which is deliberate and malicious to malign the reputation of the BJP leader Gadkari.

The legal notice demanded that the post be deleted from the Congress party’s social media handle within 24 hours of receiving the notice and apologies to Nitin Gadkari within 3 days.

If failing to do so, the notice said that the BJP leader would have no other option but to take recourse to all such actions that are open to them, both civil and criminal, at the Congress leader’s risk and expense.