New Delhi: Hours after his disqualification as a lawmaker Friday, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated he was combating for the “voice of India” and was “able to pay any worth”.
मैं भारत की आवाज़ के लिए लड़ रहा हूं।
मैं हर कीमत चुकाने को तैयार हूं।
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 24, 2023
Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha, in accordance with a Supreme Courtroom ruling, after he was convicted in a felony defamation case by a Surat courtroom Thursday. The decide handed him a two-year jail time period – a length of punishment that robotically disqualifies an MLA, MP or MLC, in response to the apex courtroom verdict in 2013.
Within the Lily Thomas versus Union of India case, the highest courtroom had dominated that “any MP, MLA or MLC who’s convicted of against the law and given a minimal of two years’ jail loses membership of the Home with instant impact”.
The courtroom had scrapped the Part 8(4) of the Illustration of the Folks Act, which allowed elected representatives three months to attraction in opposition to their conviction, calling it “unconstitutional”.
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