The next hearing is scheduled for Januray 30, which incidentally is the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
A Bhiwandi court on Wednesday granted bail to Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case over his alleged comment against RSS blaming it for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
It was on a personal surety by former Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil that the court accepted the plea by Rahul’s lawyer, Ashok Mundargi, and granted him bail. The next hearing is scheduled for Januray 30, which incidentally is the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Rahul during his address at a public rally in Bhiwandi while campaigning for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections had said that it was the RSS people who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. He had said that the same people are now invoking Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel’s name. An RSS functionary and former RSS full-timer in Gujarath Rajesh Kunte, who hails from Bhiwanid, had filed the case against Rahul Gandhi.
The complainant Kunte’s counsel Sadanand alias Nandu Phadke told the court that Kunte was ready to withdraw his case if Rahul accepts his mistake and submits an undertaking that he would not commit such mistakes again. Neither Rahul nor his lawyer responded to this. When Mundargi sought exemption for Rahul from attending the case, Phadke requested the court to treat Rahul Gandhi like any other ordinary citizen.
Rahul while addressing the public outside the court said that he would fight the case since he represents Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology which teaches people to stand up while Prime Minister Narendra Modi is asking people to bow down before him. Gandhi alleged that Modi was running a government for a handful of industrialists.
AT BANK QUEUE
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who is known to surprise people by mingling with them, stopped at Vakola to interact with the customers standing in a queue to withdraw money from State Bank of India and Canara Bank branches.
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