Rahul Gandhi, the Congress president who has messaged that his decision to step down was final, underlined that he would keep up his fight against the ruling BJP and its ideology. “I will fight 10 times harder,” Gandhi told reporters outside a Mumbai court. Lawyer and RSS worker Dhrutiman Joshi had sued Rahul Gandhi, mother Sonia Gandhi and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechuri for allegedly linking journalist Gauri Lankesh’s death to the RSS. Asked if he was going to withdraw from the fight in view of his resignation, Rahul Gandhi said: “The battle will be fought harder, ten times harder than the fight I fought for the last five years (against Modi and his government)”. At the fractious May 25 meeting, Gandhi slammed the veterans for “placing the interests” of their sons above the party.

Source: Hindustan Times July 04, 2019 08:15 UTC