CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi has more than 10 criminal defamation cases pending against him in various parts of the country but has not filed any defamation case against anyone.
Gandhi’s opponents too have made some controversial statements against him and his family and have even labelled him ‘Pappu’ but the Congress leader is yet to file any defamation suit against any of them.
In fact, in 2015, Gandhi had challenged the criminal defamation law itself before the Supreme Court alleging that the same was being misused to gag political opponents and the media.
The top court had, however, dismissed the plea.
Recently, a Magistrate court in Surat convicted Gandhi for criminal defamation and sentenced him to two years in prison for his remark, “Why all thieves have Modi surname?”
Gandhi was disqualified from Lok Sabha consequent to his conviction.
Gandhi’s ‘speeches’ have landed him in trouble several times as more than a dozen cases have been filed against him, particularly for defaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and also BJP’s ideological mentor – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Click to know more about the cases. (Link leads to an external website).
