The Congress on July 7 announced that it will move the Supreme Court after the Gujarat High Court refused to stay Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in the Modi surname case and pointed out that no court had ever handed out the maximum punishment in the 162-year history of the Indian Penal Code.
The party said that the High Court order was “disappointing” but not “unexpected”. Alleging that the repeated cases against Mr. Gandhi by BJP functionaries were an attempt to “throttle” his voice, the party promised to “redouble its resolve to fight the battle both legally and politically”.
“Why is that all cases filed against @RahulGandhi are by members of the BJP ecosystem?” Congress communication chief Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
