SULTANPUR: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi appeared before an MP-MLA court in UP’s Sultanpur on Friday and recorded his statement in a 2018 defamation case related to his remarks against Union home minister Amit Shah.Rahul told special judge Shubham Verma that the allegations against him were made out of political vendetta and with an aim of destroying his image and that of his party, said his counsel Kashi Prasad Shukla.The court told Rahulto furnish evidence in his defence on the next hearing scheduled on March 9.SULTANPUR :“The allegations are baseless and unfounded. I have never used derogatory words against anyone… A false complaint has been filed by distorting my statement,” Shukla quoted Rahul as saying.