Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is going to address a rally in Kolar on April 5. He was recently convicted in a criminal defamation case over his remarks he made at an election rally in Kolar in 2019. The Election Commission is set to announce on Wednesday the dates for voting for Karnataka Assembly polls.
UPDATED: Mar 29, 2023 11:59 IST
Rahul Gandhi is likely to address a public rally in Kolar on April 5. It was his remarks at a poll rally in 2019 that has got him convicted and disqualified from the Lok Sabha.
By India Today News Desk: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is going to Kolar to address an election rally ahead of the Karnataka polls. Interestingly, it was because of remarks at a poll speech at Kolar in 2019 that recently got him convicted in a criminal defamation case and his disqualification as an MP.
Rahul Gandhi is likely to address a public rally in Kolar on April 5.
Dates for voting for the Karnataka Assembly election and the counting of votes will be announced on Wednesday.
Top BJP leaders have already made multiple visits to the poll-bound state and held rallies and roadshows.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited Karnataka eight times since January and Home Minister Amit Shah has toured the state nine times this year.
Local leaders of Congress, including Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar, have been leading Congress’s election campaign in Karnataka.
CASE AGAINST RAHUL
It was Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Modi surname’ remarks during a rally in Kolar ahead of the 2019 general elections that saw a case of criminal defamation filed against him at a court in Surat, Gujarat. The case was filed by Gujarat BJP MLA Purnesh Modi.
The court on March 23 held him guilty and convicted him to a two-year-jail term but gave him a month’s time to appeal against the sentence.
The conviction in the case and the two-year jail term got Rahul Gandhi disqualified from the Lok Sabha. He was a Lok Sabha MP from Kerala’s Wayanad.
