New Delhi [India], March 25 (ANI): Congress on Saturday staff held a protest in Wayanad over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament.
Rahul Gandhi was a former MP from Wayanad. On Friday, Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha after a Surat court docket convicted him in a 2019 felony defamation case.
In the meantime, in Bengaluru, Youth Congress staff determined to march to the metro station to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister.
The protestors had been stopped after they had been marching to the Visvesvaraya metro station close to the Metropolis Civil Court docket in Bengaluru.
In Punjab, the Chandigarh youth Congress stopped the New Delhi-Chandigarh Shatabdi practice on the Chandigarh railway station over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament.
In Maharashtra, MVA MLAs stage a silent protest outdoors State Meeting in opposition to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as a member of Parliament.
On Saturday, whereas addressing his first presser put up disqualification as Lok Sabha MP, he stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Central authorities was fearful of his questions on Adani and that democracy was beneath assault.
Stating that he was not fearful of threats, disqualification and jail sentences, Rahul Gandhi stated that he is not going to “again down” from asking questions on the Adani shares situation.
On Friday, Gandhi was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha, a day after a Surat court docket sentenced him to 2 years imprisonment in a defamation case filed in opposition to him over his ‘Modi surname’ comment.
In April 2019, he made the comment “how come all of the thieves have Modi because the widespread surname” at a Lok Sabha election rally at Kolar in Karnataka. The court docket authorized Gandhi’s bail on a surety and stayed the sentence for 30 days to permit him to method the upper courts.
The Congress get together on Friday got here down closely on the Centre over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as a Lok Sabha member, calling it a “strangulation of democracy” whereas exuding confidence that the disqualification will likely be revoked by a keep on his conviction by the next court docket.
Earlier on Friday, BJP Nationwide President JP Nadda criticized Rahul Gandhi for his remarks which led to his conviction from the Surat court docket adopted by disqualification from Lok Sabha. (ANI)
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