Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been summoned in a case of making defamatory remarks against the army. The summons is from a Lucknow court in Uttar Pradesh. He has been directed to appear in court on March 24.
The big controversy was the remarks made by Rahul during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in 2022. The complaint against Rahul was filed by advocate Vivek Tiwari on behalf of former director of the Border Roads Organization Uday Shankar Srivastava, who holds the rank equivalent to an army colonel.
Tiwari’s argument is that Rahul’s remarks made on December 16, 2022 about the clash between the Indian and Chinese armies on December 9, 2022, are defamatory of the Indian Army.
Meanwhile, a special court had heard another defamation case against Rahul, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, on February 11, for his remarks about Union Home Minister Amit Shah during the 2018 Karnataka assembly elections.
