{"id":3573,"date":"2019-07-06T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2019-07-06T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:14:08","slug":"rahul-gandhi-in-patna-court-today-over-his-why-all-thieves-have-modi-surname-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=3573","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi in Patna Court today over his &#8216;why all thieves have Modi surname&#8217; remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, <\/strong>Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will appear before a court here on Saturday in connection with a defamation suit filed against him by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.<\/p>\n<p>The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader had filed the case before the Chief Judicial Magistrate&#8217;s (CJM) court here in April, taking exception to a snide remark made by Gandhi at an election rally in Karnataka&#8217;s Kolar district that all thieves had the surname Modi &#8212; referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, bank-fraud accused Nirav Modi and former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi.<\/p>\n<p>The case was referred by CJM Shashikant Roy to ACJM Kumar Gunjan.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi, who resigned as the Congress chief earlier this week taking moral responsibility for his party&#8217;s Lok Sabha election debacle, had last visited the Bihar capital in May, when he held a roadshow for actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who failed to retain the Patna Sahib seat on a Congress ticket in the parliamentary polls held in April-May.<\/p>\n<p>There were reports in a section of the media that Gandhi might also visit Muzaffarpur, about 60 km from here, which has been the worst affected by a state-wide outbreak of brain fever, which has claimed more than 150 lives.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) working president Kaukab Qadri told\u00a0 that the full itinerary of the former party chief&#8217;s visit was not made available here yet, &#8220;though we see little possibility of Gandhi visiting Muzaffarpur since had it been on the cards, advice would have been given to the state unit for making the necessary arrangements&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will appear before a court here on Saturday in connection with a defamation suit filed against him by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi. The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader had filed the case before the Chief Judicial Magistrate&#8217;s (CJM) court here in April, taking exception [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3575,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}