New Delhi: He was ready to pay any price for speaking the truth, said Wayanad former MP Rahul Gandhi.  He is living at 12 Tughlaq Lane bungalow since 2005,  he vacated his bungalow as he was disqualified from the lower house of Parliament last month.

He was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison by a court in Surat, Gujarat, in a defamation case for a comment seen as insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and those who share his surname during an election rally in 2019.

He appealed the verdict in a court in the State and lost on Friday. Speaking to the media persons Rahul Gandhi said that people of Hindustan gave me this house for 19 years, I want to thank them. It’s the price for speaking the truth. I am ready to pay any price for speaking the truth.

He was shifting his belongings to his mother Sonia Gandhi’s residence at 10 Janpath, where he would stay for now, he said. His sister and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was seen helping him move in the morning.

The Lok Sabha Secretariat had issued a notice to Rahul Gandhi on March 27^th to vacate his bungalow now, as per the rules that disqualify lawmakers convicted of crimes and sentenced to more than two years in jail.