Rahul Gandhi to hold ‘Jai Bharat’ rally in Karnataka ahead of polls
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address a rally in Kolar in Karnataka on April 9 in an indication of the Congress seeking to make a political issue of his disqualification from Lok Sabha with the Congress leader also slated to visit Wayanad on April 11.
Rahul Gandhi will be in poll-bound Karnataka on a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also slated to visit the state.
Rahul Gandhi was disqualified following his conviction by a Surat court in a criminal defamation case over his ‘Modi surname’ remarks made in Kolar in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
“Sh. @RahulGandhi will be in Kolar on 9th April and address the Jai Bharat Mega Rally there. On 11th April, he will visit Wayanad. He is the voice of the people, you can never silence him. This voice will only get louder and stronger,” Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said in a tweet.
Rahul Gandhi was elected to Lok Sabha in 2019 from Wayand in Kerala. The party has said that it will challenge the Surat court verdict in a higher court.
Campaigning is gathering pace in Karnataka ahead of the assembly polls due on May 10.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will get a clear majority in the upcoming Assembly elections.
The chief minister was speaking to the media at the Ghati temple in Doddaballapur taluk of Bengaluru Rural district today.