Patna court asks Rahul Gandhi to appear on April 12. Here’s why

An MP/MLA courtroom docket in Patna has requested Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to seem in courtroom docket on April 12 in reference to a petition filed towards him over his `Modi surname` remark.

In 2019, the then Bihar deputy leader minister Sushil Kumar Modi had filed a petition earlier than the Special Judge of MP MLA Court for Rahul Gandhi`s alleged objectionable feedback on ‘Modi surname’. The Congress chief became granted bail on this defamation case on July 6, 2019.

Gandhi has already been convicted through a Surat courtroom docket over his feedback and in the end disqualified as a Lok Sabha MP from Kerala’s Wayanad. The 52-year-antique chief became convicted ultimate week in a case bearing on a criticism through Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Purnesh Modi.

In his criticism, the BJP lawmaker had alleged that Gandhi at the same time as addressing a ballot rally in 2019, purportedly stated, “How come all of the thieves have Modi because the not unusualplace surname”?

Sushil Modi, now a Rajya Sabha MP, had stated that Rahul Gandhi abused backward classes. “Gandhi together along with his feedback “abused” the backward classes, and they may take “revenge” at the Congress for the declaration in the imminent polls”, he stated.

However, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress stay defiant over the disqualification. “I do not care despite the fact that I am completely disqualified due to the fact my tapasya is to paintings for the people. Disqualify me for life, placed me in jail,” Gandhi stated in a presser ultimate Saturday.

After disqualification, he became additionally requested to vacate his respectable house which he had occupied due to the fact 2005. On Tuesday, Gandhi in a letter to the Lok Sabha secretariat’s deputy secretary stated he’s going to abide through the information of the notice.