CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi will address the nationwide Satyamev Jayate rally in poll-bound Karnataka’s Kolar on April 10, said Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Tuesday. After this, he also visit his former Parliamentary constituency Wayanad a day later.
“Yesterday all senior leaders had reached there for bail of Rahul ji and the hearing will be held on April 13. Rahul Gandhi will go to address the election meeting in Karnataka on April 10. I have also been told that I have to be present there, so Rahul ji will go to Wayanad on April 11,” Baghel said.
Karnataka is slated to go to Assembly polls on May 10 and the counting of votes will take place on May 13.
Earlier on Monday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with several senior party leaders went to the Gujarat court to file an appeal against his March 23 conviction in a criminal defamation case over his “Modi surname” remark.
He was accompanied by his sister and party leader Priyanka Gandhi. Along with her, the Chief Ministers of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh too came to the court.
The court in Gujarat’s Surat granted bail till the disposal of the appeal to Rahul Gandhi in the defamation case.
The former MP from Wayanad was convicted and sentenced to two years in hail by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate H H Varma on March 23 in a defamation case over his ‘Modi surname’ remark in 2019 in Karnataka.
