Defamation suit publicity stunt: Rahul
Sultanpur (UP), July 26
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appeared before an MP-MLA court here on Friday in a defamation case against him and said it was filed to gain “cheap publicity”.
According to his lawyer Kashi Prasad Shukla, the Congress MP, who appeared before Special Judge Shubham Verma, said he never made a statement that could lead to a case of defamation.
Local BJP leader Vijay Mishra filed the complaint on August 4, 2018, against Rahul for his allegedly objectionable comments against Amit Shah at a press conference in Bengaluru. The complainant referred to Rahul’s comment that the BJP claimed to believe in honest and clean politics but had a party president who was an “accused” in a murder case.
About four years before Rahul’s remark, a special CBI court in Mumbai discharged Shah in a 2005 fake encounter case. The MP-MLA court fixed August 12 as the next date of hearin.
