Prayagraj: Local Congress workers have termed the court’s decision to acquit Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in the defamation case involving Union Home Minister Amit Shah as a victory of truth over falsehood.

At a meeting held on Monday afternoon at the party office in Chowk, under the chairmanship of City Congress Committee President Fuzail Hashmi, party members stated that Rahul Gandhi, who they alleged had been falsely implicated at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, had been acquitted by the Special MP-MLA Court in Sultanpur in the case related to his alleged remarks about Shah. Rahul was  present in court during the proceedings.

Congress workers described the case as a political conspiracy by the ruling party. They alleged that the BJP and RSS had filed dozens of false cases against Rahul Gandhi across the country to scare him. They said that these actions had drawn widespread condemnation across the nation. Sudhakar Tiwari, Kishore Varshney, Harikesh Tripathi, Zia Ubaid, Pervez Siddiqui, Rajneesh Singh Rishu, Sushmita Yadav, Afroz Ahmad, Shashi Prakash, Pradeep Dwivedi, Spokesperson Shahnawaz Qureshi, Manoj Pasi, Ishtiaq Ahmad, Rakesh Patel, Ahmadullah, Kameshwar Sonkar, Tabrez Ahmad, Sachin Kushwaha, Nafees Qureshi, Anupam Srivastava, and others were present.