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Gujarat High Court to resume hearing Rahul Gandhi’s defamation case appeal on May

         Gandhi filed a criminal revision application with the Gujarat high court, challenging the ruling of the sessions court. Justice Hemant Prachchhak took up the case, as reported by PTI. Gandhi's readmission as a member of Parliament could be possible if the high court accepts his appeal. After the case was brought before the high court judge Justice Gita Gopi on Wednesday for an urgent hearing, she decided not to hear it. The court of Justice Prachchhak was then given the case. The judge on April 20 granted him bail but declined to stay the conviction. Gandhi's "How come all thieves have Modi surname" comment caused Prunes Modi to initiate a criminal defamation lawsuit against him.  

          Gandhi is being represented in the high court by renowned attorney and Congress politician    Abhishek Manu Singhvi. On March 23, a metropolitan magistrate's court in Surat condemned the former president of the Congress to two years in prison after holding him guilty of violating Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 499 and 500 (criminal defamation) in a case brought by Gujarat MLA for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Purnesh Modi in 2019. Gandhi, who was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2019 from the parliamentary constituency of Wayanad in Kerala, was later declared ineligible to serve as an MP under the terms of the Representation of the People Act. He filed a petition for a stay of the conviction along with a challenge to the ruling before the Surat sessions court.

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 2. Mann ki Baat @100 LIVE:

Got Emotional Several Times, Had to Record Again, Says PM Modi 

Calls Radio Show His 'Worship'  Mann Ki Baat@100 LIVE Updates: 

        Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the 100th episode of “Mann ki Baat” on Sunday, said the radio broadcast is an expression of the feelings of crores of Indians and it has ensured he is never cut off from people. He said “Mann ki Baat” gave him a solution to connect with the people and was not merely a programme but a spiritual journey for him. 

          The BJP had made elaborate arrangements for the broadcast of the 100th episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ (MKB) with an “unprecedented” mass outreach programme. Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Mumbai, BJP President JP Nadda in poll-bound Karnataka and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at BJP’s Headquarters in New Delhi, are listening to the Prime Minister’s radio talk.

        BJP also organised facilities at 100 venues on average in every assembly constituency across the country for people to listen to Prime Minister’s monthly radio programme. BJP MPs and MLAs were present in their respective constituencies to oversee the exercise.

        Arrangements were also made for eminent citizens to listen to the programme in all Raj Bhawans– the official residences of governors, and the residences of chief ministers from the BJP or its allies. The party’s overseas units and several non-political organisations were roped in to ensure that the radio broadcast has the maximum outreach.

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        In the ‘Mann Ki Baat’ radio broadcast hosted by Prime Minister Modi, he addresses the people of the country on different issues. It was first aired on October 3, 2014, and is broadcast on the last Sunday of every month at 11 am on the All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD) network. The 100th episode of the 30-minute programme will be aired on April 30. 

3.Modi ji..." Sisodia as Delhi Court extends judicial custody in ED case

        Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Saturday extended Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s judicial custody till May 8 in the ED case pertaining to the excise policy matter. While being taken to court amid police security, Sisodia told the mediapersons that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would not be able to “stop Arvind Kejriwal’s work no matter how much he tries”. “Modi ji jitni koshish kar le lekin Kejriwal ji ke kaam ko rok nahi payenge Delhi me (No matter how much PM Modi tries, he won’t be able to stop Kejriwal’s work in Delhi),” Sisodia said.

        This comes after Rouse Avenue Court on Friday denied bail to Delhi’s former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in a money laundering case in connection with an alleged Excise scam in the national capital.

        Special Judge MK Nagpal on Friday dismissed Sisodia’s bail plea in the money laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

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