Rahul to face trial...
Iyer had moved an application asking for a summons trial and not a summary trial.
In a summons trial, the court will need to go through all the evidence, books and historical references pertaining to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination.
On Tuesday, Mr Kunte moved an application in which he wanted the acceptance of a transcript of Mr Gandhi’s alleged speech as evidence. But Mr Gandhi’s lawyer opposed the plea.
The complainant’s lawyer Nandu Phadke told the court that after a complaint was filed in the Bhiwandi court, Mr Gandhi had moved the Bombay high court to quash it. At that time, his petition contained his alleged speech transcript. Therefore, Mr Phadke requested the court that Mr Gandhi should accept the said transcript as evidence.
Addressing a convention of Mumbai boothlevel Congress workers in the
evening, Mr Gandhi hit out at the Modi government for its failure to create two crore jobs and address farm distress. He also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that one day he will also flee from the country like fugitives Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya.
Pointing to bank frauds, Mr Gandhi alleged that Mr Modi was a “chowkidar” only for a handful of industrialists and not the common man.
Mr Gandhi said, “Nirav Modi ran away with ` 34,000 crore; Vijay Mallya ran away with ` 8,000 crore; and Lalit Modi also.”
At this juncture, someone ín the crowd shouted the name of Prime Minister Modi. Reacting to the nudge, Mr Gandhi said, “Woh bhi bhaag jayega ( he too will run away).”
Expressing confidence of defeating the BJP in 2019, Mr Gandhi said, “The BJP saved itself somehow in Gujarat. They lost in Karnataka. In the coming elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, they will not remain to be scene. And, in 2019, the Congress and all Opposition parties will unite to defeat them.”
Slamming the Modi government over a number of issues, Mr Gandhi said, “They made claims of two crore jobs but failed to meet them. The farmers are crying.”
“Our competition is with China. They create 50,000 jobs every 24 hours and the Modi government is giving only 450. The government’s own report said that this year’s employment generation is the lowest in the last eight years. But the PM does not want to give jobs. He wants to fuel enmity among the youth. He is not bothered about the genuine issues of the people,” said Mr Gandhi.
The Congress president said that the Prime Minister feels that he can run the country only with his speeches.
“But now, if you observe him closely, there is fear in his voice. There is even more fear in Jay Shah’s father ( Amit Shah)... And that is why he is going here and there,” he said in an apparent dig at the saffron party’s “Contact for support” campaign.