Rahul to start campaign from site of remark on PM Modi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will begin his Karnataka campaign for the state elections due on May 10. In what is seen as a mark of defiance, the April 5 rally will be held in Kolar - the place where Rahul made the comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname that led to his two-year jail term and disqualification from parliament. "Rahul Gandhi will return to Kolar and begin his Satyameva Jayate Rally from there," said state party chief DK Shivakumar. At a rally in Kolar in the run-up to the 2019 elections, Rahul had said, "How come all thieves have the common surname Modi" in an apparent dig at the Prime Minister with a reference to fugitive businessmen Lalit Modi and Nirav Modi. But it was seen by the BJP as an insult to Other Backward Classes and Purnesh Modi, a party leader from Gujarat, had filed a case.