The Congress MP has been sentenced to a two-year jail term for making allegedly defamatory comments about the prime minister’s surname.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will not get cowered down by his conviction in the defamation case and will continue to speak in the interest of the country as he has the “power of truth” with him, the party’s General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Thursday.
Earlier on Thursday, a magistrate in Gujarat’s Surat sentenced Gandhi to two years’ imprisonment for his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname. The court, however, granted him bail and suspended his sentence for 30 days in order to allow him to appeal against the verdict.
The Wayanad MP had allegedly made the remarks at a rally in Karnataka’s Kolar ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He was said to have asked: “Why all the thieves, be it Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi or Narendra Modi, have Modi in their names?”
Commenting on the verdict, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the government was scared and trying to suppress his brother’s voice.
