Rahul Gandhi’s Maiden Public Meeting After Disqualification from LS Postponed to April 16

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s occasion, which was supposed to happen on April 10 has been postponed additional and now will probably be held on April 16 at Kolar, Karnataka Congress unit president D Okay Shivakumar stated on Saturday.

Gandhi had deliberate to handle individuals on April 10 on the identical place the place his speech throughout 2019 Lok Sabha elections had led to his disqualification from the decrease home of the Parliament, Shivakumar advised reporters right here.

However, due to the Assembly election associated works and the number of candidates, the celebration leaders requested him to prolong it by per week.

“We had requested Rahul Gandhi to extend the public meeting by a week and he gave his consent. Gandhi and all leaders will come on April 16 for the ‘Jai Bharat’ event at Kolar,” Shivakumar stated.

He added that this will probably be Gandhi’s first public handle in Kolar after his disqualification from the Lok Sabha. He additionally stated that Gandhi’s disqualification was an insult to democracy.

“Cancelling the Lok Sabha membership of Rahul Gandhi, who had won with a margin of seven lakh votes, is an insult to the entire democracy,” Shivakumar said.

According to the Congress sources, Gandhi’s event was earlier planned on April 5, which was changed to April 6. Then it was again planned on April 9, which clashed with Prime Minister’s ‘Project Tiger’ event in Mysuru. The date was then resheduled to April 10 and now once again it has been postponed to April 16.

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