<a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/congress-putting-undue-pressure-on-judiciary-kiren-rijiju-slams-rahul-gandhi-23278868" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Congress leader Rahul Gandhi</a> reached Surat on Monday to file an appeal against a lower court ruling convicting him in a defamation case over his 2019 remark about the surname Modi.
The 52-year-old Congress leader reached Surat via a scheduled commercial flight along with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
He was convicted by a court here and sentenced to prison for two years last month for a speech in which he linked <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/PM-Modi-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">PM Modi</a>'s last name with two fugitive businessmen, remarking how the "thieves" shared the same last name.
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The court had granted him bail for 30 days to appeal the verdict.
A day later, he was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha.
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Congress leader reached Surat via a scheduled commercial flight along with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

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