Lucknow: Senior Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has been acquitted by a special MP-MLA court in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, in a defamation case.
The case pertains to remarks made in 2018 against the then-BJP president, Amit Shah. It was filed in court in August 2018.
During the 2018 Karnataka Assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi had allegedly made objectionable remarks against Amit Shah in Bengaluru. At that time, Amit Shah was the national president of the BJP.
