PTI, NEW DELHI: Congress President Rahul Gandhi Wednesday tendered unconditional apology in the Supreme Court for wrongfully attributing his “chowkidar chor hai” remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the apex court in the Rafale verdict.
Gandhi, who filed an additional affidavit, said he holds the apex court in the “highest esteem and respect” and any attributions to it were “entirely unintentional, non-wilful and inadvertent”.
He also urged the top court to close the criminal contempt proceedings initiated on a petition filed by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, who alleged that Gandhi attributed the personal remarks to the apex court and tried to create prejudice.
The three-page affidavit was filed by the Congress president after he had drawn flak from the apex court on April 30 over his earlier affidavit in which he had not directly admitted his mistake for incorrectly attributing the allegedly contemptuous remark to the top court.
“The deponent (Rahul Gandhi) unconditionally apologises for the wrongful attributions to this court. The deponent further states that any such attributions were entirely unintentional, non-wilful and inadvertent,” Gandhi said in his fresh affidavit filed in the apex court.
