Lucknow courtroom summons to Rahul Gandhi simply BJP’s ‘soiled trick’: Congress

The case towards Gandhi stems from an announcement Rahul Gandhi made in December 2022 through the Bharat Jodo Yatra, when he mentioned, “Chinese language troopers are beating up Indian Military personnel in Arunachal Pradesh.”

The comment, supposed to critique the Modi authorities’s dealing with of border tensions with China, drew sharp criticism from the BJP and its associates, who accused Gandhi of being ‘anti-national’.

Uday Shankar Srivastava, a former director of the Border Roads Group (BRO), filed a grievance towards Gandhi, asserting that the assertion was defamatory and deeply damage the feelings of armed forces personnel.

Performing on the grievance, the courtroom registered a defamation case and subsequently issued a summons to the Congress chief.

The summons comes at a politically charged second, with the BJP and Congress locked in a fierce battle. Political observers view the authorized motion as a part of a broader sample whereby opposition leaders are subjected to authorized scrutiny in a political vendetta to hamstring their political efforts and dent their credibility. (However that’s certainly not ‘defamation’ even when unproven.)