Soon after the Gujarat High Court dismissed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s plea seeking a stay on his conviction in the criminal defamation case over his “Modi surname” remark, the party said on Friday that the judgement has only “redoubled” its resolve to pursue the case and that it will challenge the order in the Supreme Court.
“There is one more option before us… the Supreme Court. Let’s see. The Congress party will seek that option too,” AICC general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal said while addressing a party programme organised in Kozhikode, Kerala.
“We will study the Gujarat HC verdict on Shri Rahul Gandhi ji’s conviction and explore all available legal options. Rahul ji is a fierce voice that takes the Modi government head-on. No force can silence him, the truth will triumph and justice will ultimately prevail. Every patriotic Indian is in support of Rahul ji in this fight,” Venugopal wrote on Twitter.
Rahul’s sister and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra shared a poem in Hindi on Twitter and wrote, “The arrogant regime is trying every trick to suppress the truth, it is adopting all the means, price, punishment, discrimination, deceit, hypocrisy to distract from the questions related to the interests of the public.”
“He (Rahul Gandhi) is ready to pay any cost and despite all the attacks and tactics of the arrogant BJP government, like a true patriot, he has not shied away from raising questions related to the public,” she added.
