TL Cong lodges police complaint against Swamy's for comments

Congress leaders in Telangana Monday lodged a police complaint, seeking action against BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy for allegedly making a false statement against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

Telangana Pradesh Youth Congress president M Anil Kumar Yadav, AICC spokesperson Sravan Dasoju and other leaders lodged the complaint at the Abids Road police station here.

Police said the Congress leaders demanded that action be taken against Swamy for his comments that "Gandhi consumes cocaine" and sa
They said that though Swamy was aware that his statement was false, he had made it "with an ill motive to encourage and bolster hostility between political parties and to further provoke people to indulge in illegal and notorious conflicts in breach of public peace and tranquility."