Rahul Gandhi granted bail in defamation case filed by Karnataka BJP
Bengaluru: A special court in Karnataka granted bail to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today in a defamation case filed by the state’s BJP chapter.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the case was filed against several Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi, incumbent Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar over advertisements published in local newspapers ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections. The ads labeled the BJP as corrupt and said that the party’s leadership was involved in fixing prices for various posts.
Rahul Gandhi appeared before the magistrate as directed by the special court in Bengaluru, which had earlier granted bail to Karnataka CM and Deputy CM in the same case on June 1.
The defamation case was filed by the Karnataka BJP over ads that suggested the party’s leadership was corrupt and had fixed prices for various posts, including Rs. 2,500 crore for the Chief Minister’s post and Rs. 500 crore for a minister’s post.
The Congress party had made corruption a major poll issue in the run-up to the Assembly elections, which it won with a thumping majority. The party had repeatedly highlighted allegations of corruption in the erstwhile BJP government in the state.”
