New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday will enchantment his conviction in a legal defamation case in the next court docket in Surat.
On 23 March, a Justice of the Peace’s court docket had handed him a two-year jail time period that led to his disqualification from Parliament.
Whereas convicting Rahul for a remark he made on the “Modi” surname in 2019, the court docket had additionally granted him 30 days to enchantment in the next court docket.
In Surat’s classes court docket, Rahul will plead for the earlier order be put aside, and ask for a keep on his conviction. This can then restore his Lok Sabha membership from Wayanad.
Congress chief ministers Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel and Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu will accompany Rahul to court docket, information company ANI reported. As will his sister Priyanka Gandhi.
Union Regulation Minister Kiren Rijiju has termed Rahul’s in-person go to a “infantile try and carry strain on the appellate court docket”.
He tweeted: “Rahul Gandhi is likely to be going to Surat to file an Enchantment. It isn’t required of a convict to go personally to file an Enchantment. Usually, no convict goes personally. His going personally with a motley group of leaders and aides accompanying him is simply a drama… What Rahul Gandhi is doing can also be a infantile try and carry strain on the appellate court docket. All courts within the nation are immune from such ways.”
Central minister Anurag Thakur identified that nobody had accompanied get together leaders P.V. Narasimha Rao, P. Chidambaram and D.Okay. Shivakumar once they have been sentenced to jail. “However at this time… chief ministers have left their work to do that (accompany Rahul to court docket). Has one household turn out to be greater than the Structure, the Parliament, the nation?” he requested.
#WATCH | India will not tolerate the insult of backwards…Earlier, PV Narasimha Rao, P Chidambaram, DK Shivakumar went to jail too, what number of Congress folks went with them, is one household greater than the nation?: Union min Anurag Thakur pic.twitter.com/UXKxPwCPKY
— ANI (@ANI) April 3, 2023
In the meantime, Congress’ Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu — who went to Surat Monday — refuted Kiren Rijiju’s feedback. He mentioned it was fallacious to assume that anybody might strain the judiciary.
“Congress is the primary Opposition get together. And Rahul is its largest chief. There is no such thing as a hurt in going with him. This isn’t a drama. The legislation will do its job. We are going to stand with Rahul. Identical to members of the family do. Congress is sort of a household.”
#WATCH | Nobody can pressurise judiciary. We’re going to Surat. Congress is the primary opposition get together and Rahul Gandhi is large chief of our get together. This isn’t a political drama. We stand by him…: Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu pic.twitter.com/XBeOSncIVx
— ANI (@ANI) April 3, 2023
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