Lok Sabha member from Wayanad and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday (October 27, 2026) said it took “immense courage, tenacity and the perseverance of a true warrior” to stand against an “onslaught of lies”, a day after her brother and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi was acquitted in a defamation case by a court in Uttar Pradesh.
Responding to Mr. “This government has spent unprecedented resources on a filthy campaign to malign my brother, to defame him and slap bogus cases on him simply for fearlessly telling the truth. Mr.
Gandhi was acquitted by the MP-MLA court in Sultanpur on Monday (October 27, 2026) in a defamation case arising from his remarks against then BJP president Amit Shah in 2018.
Gandhi’s post on X, in which he wrote “Satyam Shivam Sundaram”, Ms. Vadra accused the government of using “unprecedented resources” to malign her brother. It takes immense courage, tenacity and the perseverance of a true warrior to stand against an onslaught of lies, the way he has,” she said.
