Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday directed that no coercive action would be taken against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the 'Modi surname' case. The next hearing, in this case, will be on August 16, reported news agency ANI. Navin Jha, a BJP member in Ranchi had filed a defamation case against Gandhi for making objectionable remarks against the then BJP's National president Amit Shah at a Congress party gathering in Chaibasa in 2018. Jha in his petition accused the Congress leader of maligning the image of Shah in his speech ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, reported PTI.
The complaint was filed on April 24 last year before the court of Ranchi Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate dismissed it. Thereafter, he filed a revision petition before the court which was allowed, and the matter was remanded back to the court of the sub-divisional judicial magistrate.
Recently in another incident, Gandhi on Sunday targeted the K Chandrashekhar Rao-led Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi claiming the party to be a "B-team" of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. "Congress has always stood against BJP in Parliament, but KCR's party has acted like BJP's B-team," Rahul said while addressing a public rally in Telangana's Khammam. "CM K Chandrashekar Rao thinks he is king and Telangana his kingdom; his party BRS is like BJP Rishtedar Samiti," he added.
"PM Narendra Modi carries remote control of Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao."
Giving a word of encouragement to the party workers, the former Congress MP said, "Party workers are like our Babbar Sher (lions), I salute all of them."
Speaking about his Bharat Jodo Yatra, he said, "We spoke about uniting the country during the Bharat Jodo Yatra. The entire country supported the Yatra showing that they do not support the spread of hatred and violence but uniting the country."
"Khammam is Congress' stronghold and the people have always shown their support. The people here understand our ideology...Telangana was a dream, the dream of the poor, farmer and labourer. For 9 years TRS tried to crush this dream. Now the TRS has changed its name to BRS- BJP Ristedar Samithi...," he added.