New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will handle a celebration rally on Sunday in Kolar, the identical place the place he made a comment on the Modi surname for which he was convicted of legal defamation and likewise stripped of his Parliament membership. According to state Congress sources, the previous AICC president will arrive in Bengaluru on Sunday morning, and journey to Kolar the place he’ll handle the ‘Jai Bharat’ rally organised by the occasion. In the night, Gandhi will inaugurate the newly constructed ‘Indira Gandhi Bhavan’ – workplace and auditorium with a seating capability of 750 folks – close to Karnataka PCC workplace in Bengaluru.
Several senior Congress leaders together with AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge, General Secretary in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala, KPCC chief D Ok Shivakumar, legislature occasion chief and former chief minister Siddaramaiah are anticipated to take part within the occasions.Â
The rally was first scheduled on April 5, which was then postponed to April 9, and eventually to April 16, resulting from ballot preparation and candidate choice course of, amongst different causes, Congress sources mentioned.
Gandhi was on March 23 sentenced to 2 years in jail by a courtroom in Gujarat’s Surat in a 2019 legal defamation case over his “why all thieves have the Modi surname” comment. A day later, he was disqualified from the Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction within the case.
The Gandhi scion had made these remarks at Kolar in April, 2019 throughout the Lok Sabha ballot marketing campaign. His go to on Sunday is necessary for the occasion forward of the May 10 Assembly elections in Karnataka.
Kolar is important as Siddaramaiah has expressed his want to contest from there, as his second seat. He has already been fielded from Varuna in Mysuru district. Congress has not but named its candidate for the Kolar seat.
