Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has been requested to seem earlier than a courtroom in Bihar’s capital Patna on April 25 in a defamation case filed by BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi. The case was lodged over Gandhi’s purported comment on ‘Modi surname’ throughout a political rally in Karnataka’s Kolar in 2019. He had allegedly stated, “How come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname.”
This was forward of the Lok Sabha elections in the identical yr. A Surat courtroom not too long ago convicted Gandhi over the purported comment and sentenced him to 2 years in jail. He is presently out on bail. After his conviction, Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha as an MP.
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The MP/MLA courtroom of Special Judicial Magistrate Aadi Dev had handed an order on March 18 asking Gandhi to seem earlier than it on April 12 as per a PTI report. However, through the listening to on (*25*), the protection counsel sought one other date stating that all the group was busy with the Surat case. To this, the decide requested Gandhi’s counsel to make sure his bodily look earlier than the courtroom on the subsequent date of listening to within the case on April 25.
Statements from the complainant’s facet have been recorded, and all proof has been submitted to the courtroom. Now, solely the assertion Gandhi is to be recorded.
Congress has stated it’s going to combat the matter each politically and legally and can take the problem to the general public. Party leaders really feel that Gandhi’s disqualification has helped carry unity among the many opposition ranks, with its first consequence being 19 opposition events now displaying uncommon unity in opposition to the BJP, in opposition to solely a handful previously.
