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With widespread resentment over various issues across the nation, this is the right time to hit the Modi government and their right-wing supporters where it hurts the most,” the leader said.

Earlier on Tuesday, social media was abuzz with discussions about an RSS versus Rahul fight. The hashtag, #Rahulexposesrss, was trending on Twitter, with Congress’ social media team feeding the trend with a series of tweets. By Tuesday night, the hashtag stopped trending.

Speaking to the media outside the Bhiwandi court, Gandhi said charges were slapped against him and he would face trial. He also criticised the Modi government and alleged that a handful of rich people were running the country. He said PM Modi was keeping quiet on issues such as rising fuel prices and discontent among farmers.

The defamation case against Gandhi dates back to March 6, 2014, when a local RSS worker, Rajesh Kunte, 43, filed the case over a speech at a rally in Bhiwandi. Kunte alleged Gandhi had indirectly suggested RSS workers killed Mahatma Gandhi. Acting on Kunte’s complaint, the magistrate court had on July 11, 2014, summoned Gandhi to face trial. On March 10, 2015, the Bombay high court turned down Gandhi’s plea to quash the defamation case and refused to give him more time. Gandhi then moved the Supreme Court with a special leave petition asking for permission to challenge the high court’s decision. He later withdrew his plea, and expressed his willingness to face trial. He said he would not apologise. Gandhi has appeared in the same court on a couple of occasion over the past three years.

Reacting to the Gandhi’s move, the petitioner, Kunte, said, “We had objected to the application by Rahul Gandhi as a petition of re-investigation of the case was struck down by the Supreme Court. Our lawyer had questioned the Bhiwandi court if it has jurisdiction to refer to the evidence tried in the case.” have to do, whether they were really able to get the arithmetic or are they actually losing voters along the way,” said the minister.

Goyal said the Congress-janata Dal (Secular) alliance in Karnataka has already started showing cracks and it was in a way “good” for the country to see what kind of an alliance is proposed as an alternate to the Modi government. The Congress and the JD(S) came together hours after the BJP emerged as the single-largest party in the Karnataka polls.

Goyal described the alliance as one with “no agenda”. “There is nothing. It is just to keep the BJP out,” he said. Goyal said that in the past, the Congress had pulled down governments led by HD Deve Gowda, Inder Kumar Gujral and Chandra Shekhar (all former prime ministers) and is becoming a party that nobody trusts, referring to short-lived coalition governments of the 1990s. “our hostages” are back home and testing, research and launches have stopped.

Giving voice to the anticipation felt around the world as the meeting opened, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday he “hardly slept” before the summit.

The optimistic summit was a remarkable change in dynamics from less than a year ago, when Trump was threatening “fire and fury” against Kim, who in turn scorned the American president as a “mentally deranged US dotard.”

Beyond the impact on both leaders’ political fortunes, the summit could shape the fate of countless people — the citizens of impoverished North Korea, the tens of millions living in the shadow of the North’s nuclear threat, and millions more worldwide.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters that the US was prepared to take action to provide North Korea with “sufficient certainty” that denuclearization “is not something that ends badly for them.”