Congress chief and former Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi will inaugurate the newly constructed ‘Indira Gandhi Bhavan’ — an workplace and auditorium with a seating capability of 750 folks — close to the Karnataka PCC workplace in Bengaluru.
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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will address a celebration rally on Sunday in Kolar, the identical place where he made a remark on the Modi surname for which he was convicted of felony defamation and in addition 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 where he will address the ‘Jai Bharat’ rally organised by the social gathering.
In the night, Mr. Gandhi will inaugurate the newly constructed ‘Indira Gandhi Bhavan’ — an workplace and auditorium with a seating capability of 750 folks — close to the 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 social gathering chief and former chief minister Siddaramaiah are anticipated to take part in the occasions.
The rally was first scheduled on April 5, which was then postponed to April 9, and at last to April 16, due to ballot preparation and candidate choice course of, amongst different causes, Congress sources mentioned.
Mr. Gandhi was on March 23 sentenced to two years in jail by a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat in a 2019 felony defamation case over his “why all thieves have the Modi surname” remark. A day later, he was disqualified from the Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction in the case. The Gandhi scion had made these remarks at Kolar in April 2019 through the Lok Sabha ballot marketing campaign.
His go to on Sunday is necessary for the social gathering forward of the May 10 Assembly elections in Karnataka.
Kolar is important as Mr. 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.
