Kolar: Rahul Gandhi to address rally on April 9

Bengaluru: Ahead of the upcoming Karnataka Assembly polls, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will hold Jai Bharat rally in Kolar on April 9.

Rahul Gandhi will be in poll-bound Karnataka on a day Prime Minster Narendra Modi is also slated to visit the state.

Rahul Gandhi was disqualified following his conviction by a Surat court in a criminal defamation case over his ‘Modi surname’ remarks made in Kolar in the run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

“Sh. @RahulGandhi will be in Kolar on 9th April and address the Jai Bharat Mega Rally there. On 11th April, he will visit Wayanad. He is the voice of the people, you can never silence him. This voice will only get louder and stronger,” Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said in a tweet.

Rahul Gandhi was elected to Lok Sabha in 2019 from Wayand in Kerala. The party has said that it will challenge the Surat court verdict in a higher court.

Campaigning is gathering pace in Karnataka ahead of the assembly polls due for May 10.

 

 

(With ANI inputs)