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‘Modi surname’ case: Congress's 'wapas aa raha hoon' comeback with a Rahul Gandhi photo
Congress shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) after the apex court stayed the conviction of Rahul Gandhi on the ‘Modi surname’ criminal defamation case.
‘Coming…questions will continue’, a post on X (formerly Twitter) shared by Congress with a photo of party leader Rahul Gandhi after the Supreme Court stayed the conviction against him on a criminal defamation case on his ‘Modi surname’ remark, thereby ordering his status as a member of Parliament be reinstated. The shared photo was from the Union Budget session this year, when Rahul Gandhi displayed a photograph of the industrialist Gautam Adani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi together claiming the alleged close links between the two amid the Adani-Hindenburg row in the Parliament.
The SC bench observed that Gandhi's conviction on the issue has wider ramification since it will also affect the right of those who elected him. He was earlier convicted by a local court in Gujarat's Surat under a criminal defamation charge over a remark made by him during an election rally in 2019. He asked, "How come all thieves have Modi as the common surname?"
He was sentenced to two-year imprisonment, which led the Lok Sabha Secretariat to repeal his status as a parliamentarian as per the Representation of People Act, 1951.
Earlier, the Congress leader approached the sessions court and the Gujarat high court, both of which rejected his plea for a stay on his conviction.
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The grand old party hailed the decision by the apex court and said the ‘truth cannot be long hidden’.
“'Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth' ~Gautama Buddha,” Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi wrote on X.
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh also said the top court's ruling is a ‘strong vindication of truth and justice’.
