The lawyer representing the Gujarat government in a defamation case against Rahul Gandhi should have filed the

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1. Rahul Gandhi's lawyer argued that the criminal defamation case against him should have been filed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an aggrieved person because most of the allegations made in the Opposition leader's 2019 election speech were directed at the latter.

2. The trial in the four-year-old case resumed after the Gujarat High Court recently vacated its interim stay on proceedings imposed in March last year.

Rahul Gandhi's lawyer told the court that since most of the allegations made in Rahul Gandhi's 2019 election speech were directed against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he should have filed a criminal defamation complaint.

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