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Patna, March 30 (). Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been summoned by the Patna MP-MLA court on April 12 to record his statement on a petition filed by senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi over his Modi surname statement. Sushil Modi has filed a defamation charge against Gandhi for making statements against people with the Modi surname.
The court has directed Rahul Gandhi’s lawyer to appear before it.
Rahul Gandhi had said during the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign in Karnataka that all people with the surname Modi are thieves. He also said that Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi have fled the country with thousands of crores of rupees.
Besides Sushil Kumar Modi, former road construction minister Nitin Naveen, Bankipur MLA, BJP leader Sanjeev Chaurasia and BJYM leader Manish Kumar have already recorded their statements as witnesses in the court.
According to sources, Rahul Gandhi can also appear in Patna MP-MLA court.
On March 23, a Surat court convicted the Congress leader for making false statements about the Modi surname and sentenced him to two years in prison. Due to this he was disqualified from the Parliament as a member from the Wayanad constituency of Kerala.
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