Cash-for-vote row: Tawde seeks apology from Kharge, Rahul through legal notice, warns of defamation lawsuit
New Indian ExpressNEW DELHI: BJP leader Vinod Tawde has demanded an apology from Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for making "false and baseless" allegations against him in the cash-for-votes incident in Maharashtra, saying if they don't he would sue them for defamation. "The Congress only believes in spreading lies, and this incident is a proof of the party's low level politics to dent me and my party's image," Tawde said. The two Congress leaders and the party spokesperson Supriya Shrinate seized on the row to accuse the BJP of using money power to influence the November 20 assembly polls in the state. The legal notice sent to the three claimed that they were aware that they were pushing a "totally false story fabricated" by them.