Lucknow: Vehicles in the convoy of Congress leader and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi were involved in a minor collision on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, police said, in a PTI newsalert published on Monday morning, October 26. Gandhi is safe and no one was seriously hurt, police said.

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India Today reported that vehicles forming part of Gandhi's convoy collided on the expressway and that the Congress leader's own car was not involved in the collision.

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The PTI alert did not give further details of how the collision happened. Monday is also the day Gandhi was scheduled to appear before the Special MP-MLA Court in Sultanpur, which is set to pronounce its verdict in a 2018 defamation case over his alleged remarks about then BJP president Amit Shah during the Karnataka Assembly elections, his defence counsel Advocate Kashi Prasad Shukla told ANI on Sunday.

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No statement from the Congress on the convoy collision had been reported by the sources checked at the time of publication.