Monday, June 5, 2023

Kharge holds meeting with opposition leaders day after Rahul’s conviction

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New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday held a meeting with opposition leaders and deliberated on the strategy going forward in the wake of Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case.

Besides the Congress, senior leaders of parties such as the DMK, National Conference, RSP, VCK, JDU, CPI(M), SP, SS, IUML, AAP and CPI attended the meeting at Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Kharge’s office inside Parliament complex.

The opposition parties have also sought time from President Droupadi Murmu on Friday afternoon to raise the matter with her.

A court in Surat on Thursday sentenced Gandhi to two years in jail in the case filed against him over his “Modi surname” remarks. The court also granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to allow him to appeal in a higher court.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh had on Thursday asserted that it is not just a legal issue but also a serious political matter linked with the future of democracy in the country, he said. “This is another major example of the Modi government’s politics of vendetta, threat and intimidation.

We will fight it legally as well as politically. We will not bow down or be intimidated by such politics and will turn this into a major political issue,” he had said.

PTI

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