Rahul Gandhi is expected to attend the proceedings in a court in Bhiwandi, near Mumbai, on Wednesday in a criminal defamation case filed against him for claiming, at a 2014 election rally, that the RSS had killed Mahatma Gandhi.
The case against the Congress vice president was filed by a local RSS functionary.
Rahul, who is scheduled to arrive in the city tomorrow evening, will proceed to Bhiwandi in neighbouring Thane district the next morning to attend the court proceedings beginning at 10 am, Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam said.
“Since our leader is arriving in the city, the party workers will welcome him at the airport,” he said.
Addressing a rally in the run-up to the 2014 general elections in the powerloom town on the outskirts of Mumbai, Rahul had claimed, “The RSS people had killed Gandhi.”
