On 26th October, several people were injured after at least five vehicles in a convoy of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi collided with an ambulance on Uttar Pradesh’s Purvanchal Expressway. Rahul Gandhi is confirmed to be safe.
The accident occurred in Haliyapur, 100 km from the state capital, Lucknow. The five vehicles involved in the accident were at the rear of the convoy of Rahul Gandhi.
Those injured included Congress workers and security personnel.
Four cars and an ambulance travelling behind Rahul Gandhi’s convoy collided on the Lucknow-Sultanpur highway in UP’s Haliyapur area in Sultanpur district on Monday. https://t.co/3FWQoRJkpH
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A CCTV footage of the accident site showed the ambulance in the right fast lane, with several vehicles bunched up in the other lanes.
A Scorpio SUV with its hood pushed in due to the impact appeared to have stopped in front of the ambulance after the collision.
Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi left for Sultanpur from his residence at 7 am today. Gandhi was going to appear in the special MP/MLA court of Sultanpur in connection with the verdict in the 2018 criminal defamation case involving alleged objectionable remarks he made against Home Minister Amit Shah at a rally in Bengaluru ahead of the 2018 Karnataka Assembly elections.
