Two months after he concluded the Kanniyakumari-to-Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi now stands disqualified as a Member of Parliament and it's uncertain whether he would be able to contest the 2024 general election....
Earlier in the day, the Lok Sabha Secretariat said Gandhi has been disqualified from the Lok Sabha, a day after a Surat court convicted him in a 2019 criminal defamation case.
Calling it a 'conspiracy', the grand old party, Congress, has reacted strongly to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi saying he is continuously 'fighting…to save democracy'.
Key Indian opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi lost his parliamentary seat as he was disqualified following his conviction by a court that found him of guilty of defamation over his remarks about Prime Minister...
Announcing Rahul Gandhi's disqualification, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a notification said that it was effective from March 23, the day of his conviction.
A local CPI(M) leader from the constituency, on condition of anonymity, told PTI that the action against Gandhi showed that BJP had scant regard for democracy in the country.
