New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Thursday interacted with college students making ready for the Union Public Service Commission and the Staff Selection Commission examinations within the Mukherjee Nagar space right here. Gandhi’s assembly with the scholars got here on a day a courtroom in Gujarat’s Surat rejected his software for a keep on his conviction in a prison defamation case over his “Modi surname” comment. In Mukherjee Nagar, Gandhi was seen seated on a chair on the roadside with the scholars as he requested them about their expectations and experiences.
#WATCH | Congress chief Rahul Gandhi interacts with UPSC aspirants in Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar
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Rahul Gandhi Savours Old Delhi’s Popular Dishes
Earlier on Monday, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi visited the Matia Mahal market in outdated Delhi and the Bengali market and handled himself to fashionable dishes of those areas. The Congress chief, who returned to the nationwide capital after two days of campaigning in ballot-sure Karnataka, visited outdated Delhi’s Chandni Chowk, which is abuzz with exercise in the course of the month of Ramzan.
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Gandhi visited a well-known “sharbat” vendor within the Matia Mahal space and different eateries. He handled himself to fruits and in addition had a style of “golgappas” at Nathu sweets on the Bengali market.
A big crowd gathered across the Congress chief in outdated Delhi. The individuals adopted him round within the slender streets and even raised slogans. Gandhi has usually been seen visiting fashionable consuming joints in Delhi.
Defamation Case Against Rahul Over Modi Surname Remark
Earlier at the moment, a courtroom in Surat in Gujarat rejected Rahul Gandhi’s plea for a keep on conviction in a defamation case that noticed him being disqualified as Lok Sabha MP by observing he ought to have been “more careful with his words” since he was a Member of Parliament and the then president of the nation’s second-largest political occasion.
The courtroom of Additional Sessions Judge RP Mogera rejected Gandhi’s plea for a keep of conviction in a 2019 defamation case over his “Modi surname” comment. It mentioned a “high standard of morality” is anticipated from an individual just like the appellant, including that the trial courtroom had imposed a sentence that was permissible in legislation.
A metropolitan Justice of the Peace courtroom right here on March 23 sentenced Gandhi to 2 years in jail after convicting him beneath sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code for prison defamation within the case filed by BJP MLA Purnesh Modi.
A day later, 52-yr-outdated Gandhi, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad in Kerala in 2019, was disqualified beneath provisions of the Representation of the People Act.
