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  • ‘Court docket procedures are used for political agendas’: Sibal slams conviction after SC aid to Rahul

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    NEW DELHI: With the Splendid Court docket staying Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Saturday mentioned he had said previous that the conviction was once unwarranted and rued that “courtroom procedures are used for political agendas.”

    Gandhi on Friday were given an enormous aid from the Splendid Court docket after it stayed his conviction in a 2019 felony defamation case over his Modi surname observation and cleared the path for his reinstatement as a Lok Sabha MP.

    The keep which can even permit Gandhi, 53, to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections was once given at the grounds that the trial courtroom in Surat in Gujarat failed to provide an explanation for why he deserved the utmost two-year punishment upon his conviction that resulted in his disqualification from the Decrease Space of Parliament.

    In a tweet, Sibal mentioned, “Splendid Court docket remains Rahul’s conviction. At the day Rahul was once convicted I publicly mentioned the conviction is unwarranted and won’t stand. The explanation I gave is what the Splendid Court docket mentioned the day past.”

    “Unlucky that courtroom procedures are used for political agendas!” he mentioned.

    Splendid Court docket
    Remains Rahul’s conviction

    At the day Rahul was once convicted I publicly mentioned the conviction is unwarranted and won’t stand

    The explanation I gave is what the Splendid Court docket mentioned the day past

    Unlucky that courtroom procedures are used for political agendas !

    — Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) August 5, 2023

    On Friday, the highest courtroom, whilst granting Gandhi the relaxation, mentioned no reason why was once given through the trial courtroom pass judgement on whilst convicting him excluding that he was once admonished through the apex courtroom in a contempt case. The SC bench additionally famous that the sentence shouldn’t have attracted disqualification had it been an afternoon lesser.

    “Had the sentence been an afternoon lesser, provisions shouldn’t have been attracted, in particular when an offence is non-cognisable, bailable and compoundable,” the SC bench had mentioned.

    It mentioned the least the trial courtroom pass judgement on was once anticipated to do was once give some causes for enforcing the utmost sentence supplied underneath the defamation act that resulted in Gandhi being awarded a time period of 2 years in prison, having attracted the provisions of the electoral regulation that envisages computerized disqualification of an MLA or MP sentenced to 2 years in prison.

    The apex courtroom additionally famous that the appellate courtroom and prime courtroom didn’t believe those facets whilst passing orders denying Gandhi aid.

    Sibal, who was once a Union minister all through UPA I and II, give up the Congress in Would possibly remaining yr and was once elected to the Rajya Sabha as an Impartial member with the Samajwadi Celebration’s beef up. He has floated a non-electoral platform ‘Insaaf’ geared toward preventing injustice.

    (With further inputs from On-line Table)

    NEW DELHI: With the Splendid Court docket staying Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Saturday mentioned he had said previous that the conviction was once unwarranted and rued that “courtroom procedures are used for political agendas.”

    Gandhi on Friday were given an enormous aid from the Splendid Court docket after it stayed his conviction in a 2019 felony defamation case over his Modi surname observation and cleared the path for his reinstatement as a Lok Sabha MP.

    The keep which can even permit Gandhi, 53, to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections was once given at the grounds that the trial courtroom in Surat in Gujarat failed to provide an explanation for why he deserved the utmost two-year punishment upon his conviction that resulted in his disqualification from the Decrease Space of Parliament.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    In a tweet, Sibal mentioned, “Splendid Court docket remains Rahul’s conviction. At the day Rahul was once convicted I publicly mentioned the conviction is unwarranted and won’t stand. The explanation I gave is what the Splendid Court docket mentioned the day past.”

    “Unlucky that courtroom procedures are used for political agendas!” he mentioned.

    Splendid Court docket
    Remains Rahul’s conviction
    At the day Rahul was once convicted I publicly mentioned the conviction is unwarranted and won’t stand
    The explanation I gave is what the Splendid Court docket mentioned the day past
    Unlucky that courtroom procedures are used for political agendas !
    — Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) August 5, 2023
    On Friday, the highest courtroom, whilst granting Gandhi the relaxation, mentioned no reason why was once given through the trial courtroom pass judgement on whilst convicting him excluding that he was once admonished through the apex courtroom in a contempt case. The SC bench additionally famous that the sentence shouldn’t have attracted disqualification had it been an afternoon lesser.

    “Had the sentence been an afternoon lesser, provisions shouldn’t have been attracted, in particular when an offence is non-cognisable, bailable and compoundable,” the SC bench had mentioned.

    It mentioned the least the trial courtroom pass judgement on was once anticipated to do was once give some causes for enforcing the utmost sentence supplied underneath the defamation act that resulted in Gandhi being awarded a time period of 2 years in prison, having attracted the provisions of the electoral regulation that envisages computerized disqualification of an MLA or MP sentenced to 2 years in prison.

    The apex courtroom additionally famous that the appellate courtroom and prime courtroom didn’t believe those facets whilst passing orders denying Gandhi aid.

    Sibal, who was once a Union minister all through UPA I and II, give up the Congress in Would possibly remaining yr and was once elected to the Rajya Sabha as an Impartial member with the Samajwadi Celebration’s beef up. He has floated a non-electoral platform ‘Insaaf’ geared toward preventing injustice.

    (With further inputs from On-line Table)

  • Modi surname defamation case: Ultimate Court docket problems realize on Rahul Gandhi’s plea to stick conviction

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    NEW DELHI: The Ultimate Court docket on Friday issued a realize in Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s plea in opposition to Gujarat HC’s refusal to stick his conviction in a legal defamation case for his alleged remarks at the ‘Modi’ surname. 

    Laying emphasis on the truth that the courtroom should pay attention the opposite facet, a bench of Justices BR Gavai and PK Mishra on the other hand refused to stick his conviction. 

    Posting the plea for August 4, 2023, the courtroom stated that the restricted query that it needed to make a decision used to be in regards to the keep of conviction. 

    Gandhi had approached SC in opposition to the decision handed via a bench of Justice Hemant M Prachchhak. Justice Prachchhak 

    whilst upholding the Surat consultation’s courtroom verdict  on July 7 stated that the will of the hour used to be to have “purity in politics” and had termed the two-year prison time period as “simply, right kind and felony.” He had famous that keep on conviction used to be no longer the guideline however an exception to be reserved for uncommon circumstances most effective and that the prevailing case didn’t fall into that class.

    Within the temporary listening to that transpired on Friday, Justice BR Gavai on the outset whilst expressing his problem to listen to the subject advised the counsels in regards to the affiliation of his father and brother with the Congress birthday celebration. Asking the events to take a choice in the event that they sought after him to listen to the subject, Justice Gavai stated, “Ahead of we studied the subject, I will have to specific some problem. My father used to be related to Congress no longer intently. he used to be no longer a congress member.. however he used to be intently related.. Mr Singhvi you’re with Congress for greater than 40 years and my brother continues to be in politics. On this background, you’ll need to take a choice.” 

    Senior Advocates AM Singhvi for Gandhi and Mahesh Jethmalani for Purnesh Modi unanimously advised the bench that they’d no problem. Laying emphasis on the truth that Gandhi were present process conviction for 111 days, Singhvi in an try to persuade the courtroom to stick his conviction stated, “He has suffered 1 parliament consultation. The elections to Wayanad constituency can be notified anytime.” 

    Urging to stick HC’s ruling, Gandhi in his plea has stated, “If the impugned judgement isn’t stayed, it might result in “throttling of unfastened speech, unfastened expression, unfastened concept, and unfastened observation”. It might give a contribution to the “systematic, repetitive emasculation of democratic establishments and the resultant strangulation of democracy which might be gravely unfavourable to the political local weather and long term of India”. If political satire have been to be held to be a base reason, then any political speech which is colourfully important of the federal government, would turn out to be an act of ethical turpitude. “This may totally corrode the principles of democracy.” 

    Gandhi in his plea has laid emphasis on the truth that the surname Modi in numerous portions of the rustic encompasses other communities and sub-communities, which generally don’t have any commonality or uniformity in any respect and that the 3 explicit individuals named within the speech, who on my own can have in all probability suffered prejudice, have admittedly no longer sued or complained.

    “As a substitute, the Complainant merely has a ‘Modi’ surname from Gujarat who has neither proven nor been held to be prejudiced or broken in any explicit or non-public sense,” the plea additionally states. 

    He in his plea has stated that an important aspect of the offence, an “goal to defame”, has admittedly no longer been proved within the case at the foundation of any proof. 

    “Regardless of this, a political speech throughout democratic political task, important of monetary offenders, and likewise of Shri Narendra Modi, has been held to be an act of ethical turpitude inviting the cruelest punishment. This sort of discovering is gravely unfavourable to democratic unfastened speech in the course of a political marketing campaign. It’s respectfully submitted that the similar will set a disastrous precedent wiping out any type of political discussion or debate which is remotely important in any method,” the plea mentioned. 

    Gandhi used to be convicted within the case and used to be sentenced to 2 years in prison via  Surat Court docket. The imprisonment ended in his disqualification as an MP underneath the Illustration of Other people Act on March 24, 2023. Even supposing he had approached periods courtroom in quest of a keep on his conviction the similar used to be rejected on April 20. His sentence used to be on the other hand suspended and he used to be granted bail at the similar day to allow him to transport enchantment in opposition to conviction inside of 30 days. 

    Justice Prachchhak had famous that Modi surname holders and contributors of the Modi group have been surely identifiable and well-defined categories, and thus, the seriousness of Gandhi’s offence used to be compounded via the truth that the defamation alleged used to be of a big identifiable magnificence, and no longer simply a person. 

    “The conviction of the petitioner comes to the impairment of the liked elementary proper to dignity and recognition of a big section of the inhabitants. The general public status of the petitioner and the truth that any utterance of the petitioner draws large-scale e-newsletter gravely impairs and damages the recognition of the complainant and the identifiable magnificence in query,” the HCs order had stated. 

    Declining to stick his conviction, the HC famous that the chief had used PM Narendra Modi’s title in his speech at a ballot rally to “upload sensation” with an “goal to impact the results of the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The courtroom had stated that Representatives of other folks will have to be males of transparent antecedent. Moreover, the bench had additionally taken word of alternative court cases pending in opposition to Gandhi which additionally integrated the only filed via Vir Savarkar’s grandson in Pune courtroom. 

    Particularly, Purnesh Modi, the complainant who filed a defamation case in opposition to Gandhi for his alleged remarks at the ‘Modi’ surname had additionally filed a caveat in Ultimate Court docket urging the highest courtroom to additionally pay attention him in case the Congress chief makes a decision to enchantment.

    NEW DELHI: The Ultimate Court docket on Friday issued a realize in Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s plea in opposition to Gujarat HC’s refusal to stick his conviction in a legal defamation case for his alleged remarks at the ‘Modi’ surname. 

    Laying emphasis on the truth that the courtroom should pay attention the opposite facet, a bench of Justices BR Gavai and PK Mishra on the other hand refused to stick his conviction. 

    Posting the plea for August 4, 2023, the courtroom stated that the restricted query that it needed to make a decision used to be in regards to the keep of conviction. googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Gandhi had approached SC in opposition to the decision handed via a bench of Justice Hemant M Prachchhak. Justice Prachchhak 

    whilst upholding the Surat consultation’s courtroom verdict  on July 7 stated that the will of the hour used to be to have “purity in politics” and had termed the two-year prison time period as “simply, right kind and felony.” He had famous that keep on conviction used to be no longer the guideline however an exception to be reserved for uncommon circumstances most effective and that the prevailing case didn’t fall into that class.

    Within the temporary listening to that transpired on Friday, Justice BR Gavai on the outset whilst expressing his problem to listen to the subject advised the counsels in regards to the affiliation of his father and brother with the Congress birthday celebration. Asking the events to take a choice in the event that they sought after him to listen to the subject, Justice Gavai stated, “Ahead of we studied the subject, I will have to specific some problem. My father used to be related to Congress no longer intently. he used to be no longer a congress member.. however he used to be intently related.. Mr Singhvi you’re with Congress for greater than 40 years and my brother continues to be in politics. On this background, you’ll need to take a choice.” 

    Senior Advocates AM Singhvi for Gandhi and Mahesh Jethmalani for Purnesh Modi unanimously advised the bench that they’d no problem. Laying emphasis on the truth that Gandhi were present process conviction for 111 days, Singhvi in an try to persuade the courtroom to stick his conviction stated, “He has suffered 1 parliament consultation. The elections to Wayanad constituency can be notified anytime.” 

    Urging to stick HC’s ruling, Gandhi in his plea has stated, “If the impugned judgement isn’t stayed, it might result in “throttling of unfastened speech, unfastened expression, unfastened concept, and unfastened observation”. It might give a contribution to the “systematic, repetitive emasculation of democratic establishments and the resultant strangulation of democracy which might be gravely unfavourable to the political local weather and long term of India”. If political satire have been to be held to be a base reason, then any political speech which is colourfully important of the federal government, would turn out to be an act of ethical turpitude. “This may totally corrode the principles of democracy.” 

    Gandhi in his plea has laid emphasis on the truth that the surname Modi in numerous portions of the rustic encompasses other communities and sub-communities, which generally don’t have any commonality or uniformity in any respect and that the 3 explicit individuals named within the speech, who on my own can have in all probability suffered prejudice, have admittedly no longer sued or complained.

    “As a substitute, the Complainant merely has a ‘Modi’ surname from Gujarat who has neither proven nor been held to be prejudiced or broken in any explicit or non-public sense,” the plea additionally states. 

    He in his plea has stated that an important aspect of the offence, an “goal to defame”, has admittedly no longer been proved within the case at the foundation of any proof. 

    “Regardless of this, a political speech throughout democratic political task, important of monetary offenders, and likewise of Shri Narendra Modi, has been held to be an act of ethical turpitude inviting the cruelest punishment. This sort of discovering is gravely unfavourable to democratic unfastened speech in the course of a political marketing campaign. It’s respectfully submitted that the similar will set a disastrous precedent wiping out any type of political discussion or debate which is remotely important in any method,” the plea mentioned. 

    Gandhi used to be convicted within the case and used to be sentenced to 2 years in prison via  Surat Court docket. The imprisonment ended in his disqualification as an MP underneath the Illustration of Other people Act on March 24, 2023. Even supposing he had approached periods courtroom in quest of a keep on his conviction the similar used to be rejected on April 20. His sentence used to be on the other hand suspended and he used to be granted bail at the similar day to allow him to transport enchantment in opposition to conviction inside of 30 days. 

    Justice Prachchhak had famous that Modi surname holders and contributors of the Modi group have been surely identifiable and well-defined categories, and thus, the seriousness of Gandhi’s offence used to be compounded via the truth that the defamation alleged used to be of a big identifiable magnificence, and no longer simply a person. 

    “The conviction of the petitioner comes to the impairment of the liked elementary proper to dignity and recognition of a big section of the inhabitants. The general public status of the petitioner and the truth that any utterance of the petitioner draws large-scale e-newsletter gravely impairs and damages the recognition of the complainant and the identifiable magnificence in query,” the HCs order had stated. 

    Declining to stick his conviction, the HC famous that the chief had used PM Narendra Modi’s title in his speech at a ballot rally to “upload sensation” with an “goal to impact the results of the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The courtroom had stated that Representatives of other folks will have to be males of transparent antecedent. Moreover, the bench had additionally taken word of alternative court cases pending in opposition to Gandhi which additionally integrated the only filed via Vir Savarkar’s grandson in Pune courtroom. 

    Particularly, Purnesh Modi, the complainant who filed a defamation case in opposition to Gandhi for his alleged remarks at the ‘Modi’ surname had additionally filed a caveat in Ultimate Court docket urging the highest courtroom to additionally pay attention him in case the Congress chief makes a decision to enchantment.

  • Disqualification from Lok Sabha has given me massive alternative: Rahul Gandhi 

    Through PTI

    STANFORD: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has stated that he didn’t believe his disqualification from Lok Sabha used to be conceivable when he joined politics however asserted that it has given him a “massive alternative” to serve the folks.

    Gandhi, who’s in the United States for a three-city US excursion, made the remarks in line with a sequence of questions from Indian scholars on the prestigious Stanford College Campus in California.

    The Wayanad Member of Parliament used to be disqualified from Lok Sabha previous this 12 months after he used to be convicted by means of a Surat court docket in a 2019 felony defamation case over his “Modi surname” statement.

    In his remarks, Gandhi stated that after he joined politics in 2000, he by no means imagined that is what he would undergo. What he sees is happening now could be approach outdoor the rest that he had concept when he joined politics.

    Regarding his disqualification from Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament, Gandhi, 52, stated he did not believe that one thing like this used to be conceivable.

    “However then I believe it is if truth be told given me an enormous alternative. Most probably a lot larger than the chance I’d have. That is simply the best way politics works,” he stated.

    “I believe the drama began actually, about six months in the past. We have been suffering. All the opposition is suffering in India. Massive monetary dominance. Institutional seize. We are suffering to struggle the democratic struggle in our nation,” he stated, including that at this day and age, he made up our minds to head for the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

    “I’m very transparent, our struggle is ours struggle,” he stated. “However there’s a staff of younger scholars from India right here. I need to have a courting with them and need to communicate to them. It’s my proper to do it,” he stated right through his interplay with Indian scholars and academicians of Indian starting place on the College right here.

    He additionally emphasized in his widespread international journeys like this, he isn’t in quest of strengthen from any one.

    “I do not perceive why the high minister does not come right here and do it,” Gandhi requested amidst applause from the target audience who had packed all the auditorium at Stanford.

    The moderator stated that the High Minister is welcome to return to Stanford anytime and have interaction with the scholars and academicians.

    One of the crucial scholars have been denied access because the auditorium used to be packed. Scholars began queuing up two hours ahead of the development began.

    Within the final one and a part years, a number of Indian ministers have interacted with Indian scholars. 

    STANFORD: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has stated that he didn’t believe his disqualification from Lok Sabha used to be conceivable when he joined politics however asserted that it has given him a “massive alternative” to serve the folks.

    Gandhi, who’s in the United States for a three-city US excursion, made the remarks in line with a sequence of questions from Indian scholars on the prestigious Stanford College Campus in California.

    The Wayanad Member of Parliament used to be disqualified from Lok Sabha previous this 12 months after he used to be convicted by means of a Surat court docket in a 2019 felony defamation case over his “Modi surname” statement.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    In his remarks, Gandhi stated that after he joined politics in 2000, he by no means imagined that is what he would undergo. What he sees is happening now could be approach outdoor the rest that he had concept when he joined politics.

    Regarding his disqualification from Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament, Gandhi, 52, stated he did not believe that one thing like this used to be conceivable.

    “However then I believe it is if truth be told given me an enormous alternative. Most probably a lot larger than the chance I’d have. That is simply the best way politics works,” he stated.

    “I believe the drama began actually, about six months in the past. We have been suffering. All the opposition is suffering in India. Massive monetary dominance. Institutional seize. We are suffering to struggle the democratic struggle in our nation,” he stated, including that at this day and age, he made up our minds to head for the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

    “I’m very transparent, our struggle is ours struggle,” he stated. “However there’s a staff of younger scholars from India right here. I need to have a courting with them and need to communicate to them. It’s my proper to do it,” he stated right through his interplay with Indian scholars and academicians of Indian starting place on the College right here.

    He additionally emphasized in his widespread international journeys like this, he isn’t in quest of strengthen from any one.

    “I do not perceive why the high minister does not come right here and do it,” Gandhi requested amidst applause from the target audience who had packed all the auditorium at Stanford.

    The moderator stated that the High Minister is welcome to return to Stanford anytime and have interaction with the scholars and academicians.

    One of the crucial scholars have been denied access because the auditorium used to be packed. Scholars began queuing up two hours ahead of the development began.

    Within the final one and a part years, a number of Indian ministers have interacted with Indian scholars. 

  • Modi observation row: Former IPL boss Lalit Modi threatens to take Rahul Gandhi to courtroom in UK

    Through PTI

    LONDON: Former IPL leader Lalit Modi, accused of economic irregularities in India, introduced a scathing assault on Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and threatened to take the senior Congress chief to courtroom in the United Kingdom over his ‘Modi surname’ observation.

    Lalit Modi, 59, additionally hit out on the Congress birthday party for relating to him as a “fugitive of justice” even supposing he had by no means been convicted of any fees.

    In a chain of tweets, which lacks punctuation and grammar, Lalit Modi additionally hailed himself as the person at the back of the “biggest wearing tournament on this international,” claiming that it has generated as regards to USD 100 billion.

    He additionally posted photographs of his grandparents to mention that his circle of relatives has completed extra for India than the Gandhi circle of relatives. “I see almost about each and every Tom, Dick and Gandhi mates over and over again announcing I’m a fugitive of justice. why? How? and when used to be I up to now ever convicted of identical,” reads the tweet.

    “Not like #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry opposition leaders don’t have anything else to take action they too are both ill- knowledgeable or simply vendetta vulnerable. I’ve made up our minds to take the @RahulGandhi a minimum of him to courtroom in UK immediately. I’m positive he should get a hold of some cast proof. I sit up for seeing him make a whole #idiot of himself,” it provides.

    i see almost about each and every Tom dick and gandhi mates over and over again announcing i ama fugitive of justice. why ?How?and when used to be i up to now ever convicted of identical. in contrast to #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry oposition leaders don’t have anything…

    — Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) March 30, 2023

    Lalit Modi’s assault on Rahul Gandhi got here just about every week after the previous Congress leader used to be convicted in legal defamation case and used to be sentenced to a two-year prison time period by means of a Surat courtroom for his ‘Modi surname’ remark.

    The conviction has since ended in Gandhi’s disqualification as a Member of Parliament.

    In his Twitter thread, Lalit Modi accused a number of Congress leaders, alleging them to be as “bag males” of the Gandhi circle of relatives and of getting “out of the country belongings.”

    He additionally claimed that he can give you the main points.

    “No longer even a penny up to now has been confirmed I took in ultimate 15 years. However what is obviously confirmed I created the best wearing tournament on this international that has generated as regards to 100 billion bucks,” he tweeted.

    “Let now not 1 Congress chief overlook that from early 1950’s the Modi circle of relatives has completed extra for them and our nation then they may be able to ever believe.

    “I too have completed greater than they may be able to ever dream of doing. So stay barking scam- tainted looters of India just like the very personal Gandhi circle of relatives,” he added.

    The businessman, who has been primarily based in the United Kingdom since 2010, stated he’s going to go back to India once stringent libel rules are handed within the nation.

    READ HERE | BJP to make use of Rahul’s ‘Modi surname’ jibe as key technique for OBC outreach all the way through ballot campaigns

    LONDON: Former IPL leader Lalit Modi, accused of economic irregularities in India, introduced a scathing assault on Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and threatened to take the senior Congress chief to courtroom in the United Kingdom over his ‘Modi surname’ observation.

    Lalit Modi, 59, additionally hit out on the Congress birthday party for relating to him as a “fugitive of justice” even supposing he had by no means been convicted of any fees.

    In a chain of tweets, which lacks punctuation and grammar, Lalit Modi additionally hailed himself as the person at the back of the “biggest wearing tournament on this international,” claiming that it has generated as regards to USD 100 billion.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He additionally posted photographs of his grandparents to mention that his circle of relatives has completed extra for India than the Gandhi circle of relatives. “I see almost about each and every Tom, Dick and Gandhi mates over and over again announcing I’m a fugitive of justice. why? How? and when used to be I up to now ever convicted of identical,” reads the tweet.

    “Not like #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry opposition leaders don’t have anything else to take action they too are both ill- knowledgeable or simply vendetta vulnerable. I’ve made up our minds to take the @RahulGandhi a minimum of him to courtroom in UK immediately. I’m positive he should get a hold of some cast proof. I sit up for seeing him make a whole #idiot of himself,” it provides.

    i see almost about each and every Tom dick and gandhi mates over and over again announcing i ama fugitive of justice. why ?How?and when used to be i up to now ever convicted of identical. in contrast to #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry oposition leaders don’t have anything…
    — Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) March 30, 2023
    Lalit Modi’s assault on Rahul Gandhi got here just about every week after the previous Congress leader used to be convicted in legal defamation case and used to be sentenced to a two-year prison time period by means of a Surat courtroom for his ‘Modi surname’ remark.

    The conviction has since ended in Gandhi’s disqualification as a Member of Parliament.

    In his Twitter thread, Lalit Modi accused a number of Congress leaders, alleging them to be as “bag males” of the Gandhi circle of relatives and of getting “out of the country belongings.”

    He additionally claimed that he can give you the main points.

    “No longer even a penny up to now has been confirmed I took in ultimate 15 years. However what is obviously confirmed I created the best wearing tournament on this international that has generated as regards to 100 billion bucks,” he tweeted.

    “Let now not 1 Congress chief overlook that from early 1950’s the Modi circle of relatives has completed extra for them and our nation then they may be able to ever believe.

    “I too have completed greater than they may be able to ever dream of doing. So stay barking scam- tainted looters of India just like the very personal Gandhi circle of relatives,” he added.

    The businessman, who has been primarily based in the United Kingdom since 2010, stated he’s going to go back to India once stringent libel rules are handed within the nation.

    READ HERE | BJP to make use of Rahul’s ‘Modi surname’ jibe as key technique for OBC outreach all the way through ballot campaigns

  • BJP to make use of Rahul’s ‘Modi surname’ jibe as key technique for OBC outreach right through ballot campaigns

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    In what seems to be a well-crafted plan, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday party(BJP) is tossing up ex-Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s statement on ‘Modi surname’ as an ‘factor of insult’ to OBCs around the nation in view of upcoming the 2024 normal elections particularly and meeting elections in some states in normal.

    Showing as operating with this ‘objectively’ crafted electoral technique within the wake of the disqualification of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi after he was once convicted in a felony defamation case, the BJP leaders, particularly those that belong to OBCs, have began protesting towards Gandhi’s remarks on Modi surname in a deliberate method around the nation describing it as an insult to OBCs. 

    In what seems additionally as part of this technique, followed amid the Opposition’s persisting protests towards the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from LS club, the BJP MPs of OBCs additionally demonstrated close to the Gandhi statue at the premises of Parliament hard an apology from Rahul Gandhi for his
    statement on Modi’s surname.

    “Hindustan won’t tolerate insult to Modi ji. Rahul Gandhi must have a disgrace, search apology”, the BJP MPs demanded.  

    Some senior resources in BJP right here mentioned that Rahul Gandhi’s statement on ‘The Modi surname’ will undoubtedly snowball into a large political factor to counter the Congress-led Opposition protest towards disqualification and the accusation towards the BJP over disqualification.

    “The Congress-led Opposition are accusing the BJP for what came about to Rahul Gandhi after his conviction. However actually, the BJP has not anything to do with it. Rahul has insulted us (OBCs) and the BJP must use his remarks to mission it as an insult to OBCs”, remarked an OBC chief belonging to the BJP.

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    On Monday, BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi additionally mentioned that the conviction of Rahul Gandhi over his statement on Modi’s surname has been accomplished via the court docket. “It’s not the determination of PM Modi or the BJP. Gandhi has insulted OBCs and should pay a penalty for it”, he remarked.

    But if the Congress Birthday party together with different like-minded folks began developing uproar over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi after his conviction, the BJP shrewdly connected the Congress-led Opposition protest towards Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case and next disqualification from LS with the sentiment of OBC folks forward of polls.  

    Many senior leaders together with union ministers like Piyush Goyal, Anurag Thakur, Hardeep Singh Puri and others, have additionally demanded for an apology from Rahul Gandhi for his remarks at the Modi surname and his remarks concerning the state of democracy in India whilst issuing a speech in London.

    “In India, 56 % of the rustic’s overall vote casting inhabitants constitutes of OBCs.  Gandhi’s statement on Modi surname, which belongs to an OBC, has badly harm the sentiment of OBCs within the nation. The BJP will take this insult sooner than the OBC folks. PM Modi has given a brand new social reorganisation to OBCs and now 27 ministers in Modi’s cupboard belong to OBCs.

    ALSO READ| Gehlot says judiciary below force, ‘Modi surname’ statement via Rahul was once simply ‘political’ remark​

    The PM Modi is the only OBC –worrying chief”, remarked a senior BJP chief. Upon being contacted, the Nationwide President of BJP OBC Morcha Dr Ok Laxman additionally mentioned that the BJP MPs, belonging to OBCs, will meet in combination on Wednesday with the nationwide president of the celebration JP Nadda, to chalk out additional process agitation towards Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on Modi surname.

    “Gandhi’s’ statement on Modi’s surname isn’t a small factor. We’re taking it severely as a large factor that has insulted the collective psyche of OBC folks within the nation. We will be able to take this around the nation within the subsequent 365 days”, Dr Laxman, who’s MP in RS, additionally remarked.

    He mentioned that the OBC Morcha of BJP is launching a national marketing campaign taking the works accomplished for the OBC folks via the Modi govt throughout 1 lakh villages to hide 1 crore homes of OBC folks from April 6 to fourteen. 

    “The Congress has been insulting OBC folks for a very long time. Rahul Gandhi’s statement on Modi’s surname was once part of the anti-OBC mindset on which the court docket pronounced judgement towards Gandhi. We will be able to take this factor of insult of OBC folks around the nation”, he mentioned. He added that each one OBC MPs of the BJP will take a seat in conjunction with JP Nadda on Wednesday and speak about this.

    In what seems to be a well-crafted plan, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday party(BJP) is tossing up ex-Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s statement on ‘Modi surname’ as an ‘factor of insult’ to OBCs around the nation in view of upcoming the 2024 normal elections particularly and meeting elections in some states in normal.

    Showing as operating with this ‘objectively’ crafted electoral technique within the wake of the disqualification of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi after he was once convicted in a felony defamation case, the BJP leaders, particularly those that belong to OBCs, have began protesting towards Gandhi’s remarks on Modi surname in a deliberate method around the nation describing it as an insult to OBCs. 

    In what seems additionally as part of this technique, followed amid the Opposition’s persisting protests towards the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from LS club, the BJP MPs of OBCs additionally demonstrated close to the Gandhi statue at the premises of Parliament hard an apology from Rahul Gandhi for his
    statement on Modi’s surname.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “Hindustan won’t tolerate insult to Modi ji. Rahul Gandhi must have a disgrace, search apology”, the BJP MPs demanded.  

    Some senior resources in BJP right here mentioned that Rahul Gandhi’s statement on ‘The Modi surname’ will undoubtedly snowball into a large political factor to counter the Congress-led Opposition protest towards disqualification and the accusation towards the BJP over disqualification.

    “The Congress-led Opposition are accusing the BJP for what came about to Rahul Gandhi after his conviction. However actually, the BJP has not anything to do with it. Rahul has insulted us (OBCs) and the BJP must use his remarks to mission it as an insult to OBCs”, remarked an OBC chief belonging to the BJP.

    ALSO READ| ‘Modi surname’ case: Rahul Gandhi sentenced to 2 years in prison, has 30 days to attraction

    On Monday, BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi additionally mentioned that the conviction of Rahul Gandhi over his statement on Modi’s surname has been accomplished via the court docket. “It’s not the determination of PM Modi or the BJP. Gandhi has insulted OBCs and should pay a penalty for it”, he remarked.

    But if the Congress Birthday party together with different like-minded folks began developing uproar over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi after his conviction, the BJP shrewdly connected the Congress-led Opposition protest towards Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case and next disqualification from LS with the sentiment of OBC folks forward of polls.  

    Many senior leaders together with union ministers like Piyush Goyal, Anurag Thakur, Hardeep Singh Puri and others, have additionally demanded for an apology from Rahul Gandhi for his remarks at the Modi surname and his remarks concerning the state of democracy in India whilst issuing a speech in London.

    “In India, 56 % of the rustic’s overall vote casting inhabitants constitutes of OBCs.  Gandhi’s statement on Modi surname, which belongs to an OBC, has badly harm the sentiment of OBCs within the nation. The BJP will take this insult sooner than the OBC folks. PM Modi has given a brand new social reorganisation to OBCs and now 27 ministers in Modi’s cupboard belong to OBCs.

    ALSO READ| Gehlot says judiciary below force, ‘Modi surname’ statement via Rahul was once simply ‘political’ remark​

    The PM Modi is the only OBC –worrying chief”, remarked a senior BJP chief. Upon being contacted, the Nationwide President of BJP OBC Morcha Dr Ok Laxman additionally mentioned that the BJP MPs, belonging to OBCs, will meet in combination on Wednesday with the nationwide president of the celebration JP Nadda, to chalk out additional process agitation towards Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on Modi surname.

    “Gandhi’s’ statement on Modi’s surname isn’t a small factor. We’re taking it severely as a large factor that has insulted the collective psyche of OBC folks within the nation. We will be able to take this around the nation within the subsequent 365 days”, Dr Laxman, who’s MP in RS, additionally remarked.

    He mentioned that the OBC Morcha of BJP is launching a national marketing campaign taking the works accomplished for the OBC folks via the Modi govt throughout 1 lakh villages to hide 1 crore homes of OBC folks from April 6 to fourteen. 

    “The Congress has been insulting OBC folks for a very long time. Rahul Gandhi’s statement on Modi’s surname was once part of the anti-OBC mindset on which the court docket pronounced judgement towards Gandhi. We will be able to take this factor of insult of OBC folks around the nation”, he mentioned. He added that each one OBC MPs of the BJP will take a seat in conjunction with JP Nadda on Wednesday and speak about this.

  • Congress Satyagraha in strengthen of Rahul: Leaders, employees name for ‘democratic forces to get in combination’

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress employees around the nation on Sunday organised “Sankalp Satyagraha” to protest in opposition to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, with birthday party president Mallikarjun Kharge lashing out on the ruling BJP and asking why it’s pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Whilst in Delhi, the police denied permission to the Congress to carry its protest programme at Rajghat, the police in Gujarat detained a number of birthday party functionaries for containing the stir.

    Within the nationwide capital, the Congress post a degree out of doors Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial for its day-long protest programme after the permission used to be denied.

    In her deal with on the protest programme, Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi mentioned a martyred top minister’s son, who walked 1000’s of kilometres for nationwide team spirit, can by no means insult the rustic. She used to be regarding her father and overdue top minister Rajiv Gandhi who used to be assassinated in 1991.

    Priyanka Gandhi mentioned the time had come to boost voice in opposition to an “smug executive” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections does no longer bode neatly for the rustic and its democracy.

    “My circle of relatives’s blood has nurtured democracy on this nation. We’re able to do the rest for this nation’s democracy. Nice leaders of the Congress laid the root of democracy on this nation. If they believe they may be able to scare us, they’re fallacious. We will be able to no longer be scared,” she mentioned.

     Police detain a Congress supporter all through a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Ahmedabad. (Photograph | PTI)

    Slamming the BJP over its fee that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs together with his statement for which he has been convicted in a legal defamation case, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned why is the ruling birthday party pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Kharge additionally thanked all Opposition events for status with Rahul Gandhi and the Congress to avoid wasting democracy.

    “They communicate of OBC now, is Lalit Modi OBC, is Nirav Modi OBC, is Mehul Choksi OBC, they ran away with other folks’s cash. If they’re fugitives why are you pained if they’re criticised. You (BJP) punish the one that works to avoid wasting the rustic and ship the ones in a foreign country who loot the rustic,” Kharge mentioned.

    “Rahul Gandhi ji is preventing for the folks of this nation, for the ladies, for the adolescence, preventing in opposition to unemployment and inflation,” he mentioned.

    Gandhi used to be disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case.

    The disqualification will save you Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for 8 years until the next court docket remains the conviction.

    ALSO READ | Will combat ‘legally and politically’: Congress on Rahul’s LS disqualification

    .@INCIndia’s Samvidhan Bachao, Loktantra Bachao Sankalp Satyagraha has simply begun at Rajghat with loads of leaders and employees collaborating. The Satyagraha will proceed until 5pm. %.twitter.com/dF6a4pAYAS

    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 26, 2023

    Congress protests throughout nation

    Congress employees in lots of states and union territories like Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat took section within the protest programme.

    In Gujarat, the police detained state Congress leader Jagdish Tahor, Chief of Opposition within the Meeting Amit Chavda and senior chief Bharatsinh Solanki at the side of birthday party employees once they arrived at Lal Darwaza in Ahmedabad to protest.

    The protesters had been taken to the police stadium the place they persisted to shout slogans in opposition to High Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Celebration.

    “We’ve got the facility of Reality and backbone of Satyagraha. To reveal the loot of BJP, with a company resolution to offer protection to democracy, every employee of Gujarat Pradesh Congress is with Rahul Gandhi,” Thakor tweeted.

    TPCC  president and MP Revanth Reddy at the side of Senior congress leaders protest on Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday. (Photograph | Vinay Madapu, EPS)

    The Punjab and Haryana gadgets of Congress additionally seen the satyagraha.

    Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring alleged that the motion in opposition to Rahul Gandhi used to be taken since the BJP-led Centre used to be “scared” of his subsequent speech in Parliament at the Adani factor. Warring mentioned a “tearing hurry” used to be proven by means of the Lok Sabha Secretariat in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi allegedly on the behest of the BJP-led executive.

    Haryana Congress leader Udai Bhan mentioned Rahul Gandhi has been elevating his voice in opposition to the BJP-led Centre on quite a lot of problems. “They wish to silence his voice, however they’re fallacious,” he mentioned.

    Charging that establishments are being attacked within the nation, Punjab’s Chief of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa mentioned it’s time for “all democratic forces to get in combination”.

    In Congress-ruled Rajasthan, the birthday party’s state unit leader Govind Singh Dotasra, Meals and Civil Provides Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and a number of other different leaders took section within the protest.

    Dubbing Gandhi’s disqualification as a “homicide of democracy”, Dotasra charged that the BJP labels someone who raises their voice in opposition to it as “anti-nationals” and distorts their public symbol thru social media. “Rahul Gandhi is somebody whose grandmother and father sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country,” he added.

    MP Shashi Tharoor talking within the Satyagraha organised by means of Congress at Gandhi Park in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. (Photograph | BP Deepu, EPS)

    The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Sunday held a statewide protest. TNCC president Ok S Alagiri, who led the protest in Cuddalore termed Gandhi’s disqualification an act of injustice and political vendetta.

    In the meantime, the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee mentioned it’s going to grasp a dawn-to-dusk rapid right here on Monday to sentence the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as member of Parliament.

    In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, senior birthday party leaders like native MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Pradesh Congress Committee president Ranglal Halder and Marketing campaign Committee chairman of Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress, TSG Bhasker assembled in entrance of the statue close to Aberdeen Bazaar right here since morning and raised their voices in opposition to the ruling birthday party on the Centre for “conspiring in opposition to Rahul Gandhi.”

    “कांग्रेस” देश के लिए क़ुर्बानी का दूसरा नाम है। #SankalpSatyagraha %.twitter.com/ylDK3K9S8u

    — Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) March 26, 2023

    In Port Blair, birthday party leaders had been noticed wearing placards criticising the NDA executive.

    In Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla, Congress leaders and employees accrued on the Ridge and protested in opposition to the transfer. The birthday party would release a statewide protest in opposition to the alleged try of the BJP executive to “kill democracy” and “muzzle” the voice of the folks from Monday, mentioned Congress leaders.

    Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Sunday held a day-long ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ with birthday party chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir accusing the BJP executive on the Centre of being undemocratic. 

    Talking to newshounds, Mir mentioned no longer handiest Congress birthday party, however all non-BJP secular events have come in combination, and are “wailing over the loss of life of democracy” within the nation. “The BJP executive has no longer left any signal of the Charter within the nation, all of the steps it takes are unlawful and undemocratic,” he charged.

    Jammu and Kashmir Congress President Vikar Rasool Wani with birthday party leaders phases a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Jammu. (Photograph | PTI)

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    NEW DELHI: Congress employees around the nation on Sunday organised “Sankalp Satyagraha” to protest in opposition to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, with birthday party president Mallikarjun Kharge lashing out on the ruling BJP and asking why it’s pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Whilst in Delhi, the police denied permission to the Congress to carry its protest programme at Rajghat, the police in Gujarat detained a number of birthday party functionaries for containing the stir.

    Within the nationwide capital, the Congress post a degree out of doors Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial for its day-long protest programme after the permission used to be denied.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    In her deal with on the protest programme, Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi mentioned a martyred top minister’s son, who walked 1000’s of kilometres for nationwide team spirit, can by no means insult the rustic. She used to be regarding her father and overdue top minister Rajiv Gandhi who used to be assassinated in 1991.

    Priyanka Gandhi mentioned the time had come to boost voice in opposition to an “smug executive” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections does no longer bode neatly for the rustic and its democracy.

    “My circle of relatives’s blood has nurtured democracy on this nation. We’re able to do the rest for this nation’s democracy. Nice leaders of the Congress laid the root of democracy on this nation. If they believe they may be able to scare us, they’re fallacious. We will be able to no longer be scared,” she mentioned.

     Police detain a Congress supporter all through a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Ahmedabad. (Photograph | PTI)

    Slamming the BJP over its fee that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs together with his statement for which he has been convicted in a legal defamation case, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned why is the ruling birthday party pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Kharge additionally thanked all Opposition events for status with Rahul Gandhi and the Congress to avoid wasting democracy.

    “They communicate of OBC now, is Lalit Modi OBC, is Nirav Modi OBC, is Mehul Choksi OBC, they ran away with other folks’s cash. If they’re fugitives why are you pained if they’re criticised. You (BJP) punish the one that works to avoid wasting the rustic and ship the ones in a foreign country who loot the rustic,” Kharge mentioned.

    “Rahul Gandhi ji is preventing for the folks of this nation, for the ladies, for the adolescence, preventing in opposition to unemployment and inflation,” he mentioned.

    Gandhi used to be disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case.

    The disqualification will save you Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for 8 years until the next court docket remains the conviction.

    ALSO READ | Will combat ‘legally and politically’: Congress on Rahul’s LS disqualification

    .@INCIndia’s Samvidhan Bachao, Loktantra Bachao Sankalp Satyagraha has simply begun at Rajghat with loads of leaders and employees collaborating. The Satyagraha will proceed until 5pm. %.twitter.com/dF6a4pAYAS
    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 26, 2023
    Congress protests throughout nation

    Congress employees in lots of states and union territories like Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat took section within the protest programme.

    In Gujarat, the police detained state Congress leader Jagdish Tahor, Chief of Opposition within the Meeting Amit Chavda and senior chief Bharatsinh Solanki at the side of birthday party employees once they arrived at Lal Darwaza in Ahmedabad to protest.

    The protesters had been taken to the police stadium the place they persisted to shout slogans in opposition to High Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Celebration.

    “We’ve got the facility of Reality and backbone of Satyagraha. To reveal the loot of BJP, with a company resolution to offer protection to democracy, every employee of Gujarat Pradesh Congress is with Rahul Gandhi,” Thakor tweeted.

    TPCC  president and MP Revanth Reddy at the side of Senior congress leaders protest on Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday. (Photograph | Vinay Madapu, EPS)

    The Punjab and Haryana gadgets of Congress additionally seen the satyagraha.

    Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring alleged that the motion in opposition to Rahul Gandhi used to be taken since the BJP-led Centre used to be “scared” of his subsequent speech in Parliament at the Adani factor. Warring mentioned a “tearing hurry” used to be proven by means of the Lok Sabha Secretariat in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi allegedly on the behest of the BJP-led executive.

    Haryana Congress leader Udai Bhan mentioned Rahul Gandhi has been elevating his voice in opposition to the BJP-led Centre on quite a lot of problems. “They wish to silence his voice, however they’re fallacious,” he mentioned.

    Charging that establishments are being attacked within the nation, Punjab’s Chief of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa mentioned it’s time for “all democratic forces to get in combination”.

    In Congress-ruled Rajasthan, the birthday party’s state unit leader Govind Singh Dotasra, Meals and Civil Provides Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and a number of other different leaders took section within the protest.

    Dubbing Gandhi’s disqualification as a “homicide of democracy”, Dotasra charged that the BJP labels someone who raises their voice in opposition to it as “anti-nationals” and distorts their public symbol thru social media. “Rahul Gandhi is somebody whose grandmother and father sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country,” he added.

    MP Shashi Tharoor talking within the Satyagraha organised by means of Congress at Gandhi Park in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. (Photograph | BP Deepu, EPS)

    The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Sunday held a statewide protest. TNCC president Ok S Alagiri, who led the protest in Cuddalore termed Gandhi’s disqualification an act of injustice and political vendetta.

    In the meantime, the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee mentioned it’s going to grasp a dawn-to-dusk rapid right here on Monday to sentence the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as member of Parliament.

    In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, senior birthday party leaders like native MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Pradesh Congress Committee president Ranglal Halder and Marketing campaign Committee chairman of Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress, TSG Bhasker assembled in entrance of the statue close to Aberdeen Bazaar right here since morning and raised their voices in opposition to the ruling birthday party on the Centre for “conspiring in opposition to Rahul Gandhi.”

    “कांग्रेस” देश के लिए क़ुर्बानी का दूसरा नाम है। #SankalpSatyagraha %.twitter.com/ylDK3K9S8u
    — Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) March 26, 2023
    In Port Blair, birthday party leaders had been noticed wearing placards criticising the NDA executive.

    In Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla, Congress leaders and employees accrued on the Ridge and protested in opposition to the transfer. The birthday party would release a statewide protest in opposition to the alleged try of the BJP executive to “kill democracy” and “muzzle” the voice of the folks from Monday, mentioned Congress leaders.

    Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Sunday held a day-long ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ with birthday party chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir accusing the BJP executive on the Centre of being undemocratic. 

    Talking to newshounds, Mir mentioned no longer handiest Congress birthday party, however all non-BJP secular events have come in combination, and are “wailing over the loss of life of democracy” within the nation. “The BJP executive has no longer left any signal of the Charter within the nation, all of the steps it takes are unlawful and undemocratic,” he charged.

    Jammu and Kashmir Congress President Vikar Rasool Wani with birthday party leaders phases a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Jammu. (Photograph | PTI)

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  • Rahul stands disqualified from contesting LS, Meeting polls for 8 years with out HC reduction: Professional

    Meeting and parliamentary bypolls are have shyed away from if the remainder time period of the Home is for not up to three hundred and sixty five days.

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday stood disqualified from contesting Lok Sabha and Meeting elections for 8 years except a better courtroom remains his conviction, a professional on electoral rules stated.

    Bringing up Phase 8 of the Illustration of the Other folks Act, the skilled stated the disqualification shall be for 8 years — two years of the prison time period awarded through the courtroom and every other six years from the date of his unlock as prescribed within the legislation.

    Prison time period of 2 years or extra draws disqualification below the Act.

    “He stands disqualified for a complete length of 8 years except a better courtroom remains his conviction,” stated a former Election Fee reliable who’s a professional on electoral rules.

    He additionally stated “technically” the Election Fee can hang a bypoll to the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala as there’s multiple 12 months earlier than the time period of the current Lok Sabha expires someday in June subsequent 12 months.

    Meeting and parliamentary bypolls are have shyed away from if the remainder time period of the Home is for not up to three hundred and sixty five days.

    The skilled, who didn’t need to be named, felt that the EC is prone to look ahead to the 30-day length granted through the courtroom to permit the previous Congress president to report an enchantment in opposition to the conviction.

    Gandhi was once disqualified from Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after he was once convicted through a Surat courtroom in a 2019 felony defamation case.

    Saying his disqualification, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a notification stated that it was once efficient from March 23, the day of his conviction.

    ALSO READ | Defamation case: Rahul Gandhi disqualified as MP; is also barred from contesting polls for 8 years

    “Consequent upon his conviction through the Court docket of Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace, Surat. Rahul Gandhi, Member of Lok Sabha representing the Wayanad Parliamentary Constituency of Kerala stands disqualified from the club of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction i.e.23 March 2023,” the notification learn.

    The courtroom in Surat sentenced on Thursday Gandhi to 2 years in prison in a defamation case, filed on a criticism through BJP MLA Purnesh Modi for his alleged “Modi surname” commentary.

    The Surat courtroom additionally granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to permit him to enchantment in a better courtroom.

    Gandhi is the second one member of Lok Sabha, after Lakshadweep MP P P Mohammed Faisal of the Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration, to were disqualified within the contemporary previous following conviction.

    The Kavaratti periods courtroom in Lakshadweep had sentenced 4 individuals, together with Mohammed Faizal to ten years in prison when they had been discovered accountable in an attempt-to-murder case.

    Following the conviction, Faizal was once disqualified. On the other hand, the Kerala Prime Court docket later suspended his conviction and sentence.

    Consistent with the MP, the Lok Sabha Secretariat is but to factor a notification revoking his disqualification.

    Mohd Azam Khan of the Samajwadi Birthday celebration was once disqualified as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Meeting following his conviction in a hate speech case.

    ALSO READ | ‘Modi surname’ case: Rahul Gandhi sentenced to 2 years in prison, has 30 days to enchantment

    His son Abdullah Azam, additionally an SP MLA in UP, was once disqualified after being convicted in a case associated with the assault on policemen.

    BJP’s Vikram Saini was once disqualified from the Uttar Pradesh Meeting following his conviction remaining 12 months in a Muzaffarnagar riots case.

    RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and previous Tamil Nadu leader minister J Jayalalithaa too have confronted disqualification from Parliament and Meeting respectively following their convictions.

  • Will Rahul be disqualified as MP after court docket verdict? Now not so rapid, says constitutional skilled

    By means of Categorical Information Provider

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for 2 years by way of a Surat court docket has ended in a debate on whether or not he stands disqualified as an MP. Going by way of the Illustration of Folks Act 1951, conviction in a legal case will result in rapid disqualification. On the other hand, Article 103 of the Charter, which says the President shall take a last name on whether or not a member of Parliament is topic to disqualification, may provide some respite to Gandhi.

    Constitutional skilled and previous secretary normal of Lok Sabha PDT Achary says the topic is open to interpretation. Going by way of the legislation, if one is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for 2 years or extra, he’ll be disqualified right away. Previous, beneath the Illustration of Folks Act, there was once a three-month window to be had to sitting individuals, throughout which they are able to document an attraction. If the attraction is disposed of, the disqualification does now not practice.

    ALSO READ | ‘Dictator’ BJP government rattled, says Congress leader Kharge after Rahul will get two-year prison time period 

    In 2013, whilst bearing in mind the Lily Thomas case, the Ideally suited Court docket discovered the three-month window unconstitutional and so struck it off. This implies as quickly because the sentence is introduced, the duration of disqualification starts.

    Achary identified sure different sides too. “If Gandhi is going for an attraction, and the appellate court docket remains the order, it approach the disqualification stands suspended. Assume there is a hole of ten days, will he stay a member or now not throughout the ones days – that’s not transparent,” he mentioned.

    He additionally famous any other Constitutional provision. Below Article 103, the President has to claim whether or not a sitting member of both Space of Parliament is topic to disqualification. As consistent with the Constitutional provision, a choice on disqualification might be taken by way of the President.

    ALSO READ | Does Congress need whole freedom for Rahul to abuse other people: BJP

    “If anyone approaches the President asking whether or not this guy stands disqualified or now not, then the President has to inspect it in session with the Election Fee. The ECI will give its opinion and the President has abide by way of it,” he added. “On this case, automated disqualification won’t happen. However this could now not be in consonance with the apex court docket’s ruling. This offers upward thrust to ambiguity,” he seen.  

    Achary additional identified that the trial court docket itself has suspended the sentence for a month. The disqualification is immediately associated with the duration of sentence. Due to this fact logically if the sentence is suspended, the disqualification process would routinely stand suspended.

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for 2 years by way of a Surat court docket has ended in a debate on whether or not he stands disqualified as an MP. Going by way of the Illustration of Folks Act 1951, conviction in a legal case will result in rapid disqualification. On the other hand, Article 103 of the Charter, which says the President shall take a last name on whether or not a member of Parliament is topic to disqualification, may provide some respite to Gandhi.

    Constitutional skilled and previous secretary normal of Lok Sabha PDT Achary says the topic is open to interpretation. Going by way of the legislation, if one is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for 2 years or extra, he’ll be disqualified right away. Previous, beneath the Illustration of Folks Act, there was once a three-month window to be had to sitting individuals, throughout which they are able to document an attraction. If the attraction is disposed of, the disqualification does now not practice.

    ALSO READ | ‘Dictator’ BJP government rattled, says Congress leader Kharge after Rahul will get two-year prison time period googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    In 2013, whilst bearing in mind the Lily Thomas case, the Ideally suited Court docket discovered the three-month window unconstitutional and so struck it off. This implies as quickly because the sentence is introduced, the duration of disqualification starts.

    Achary identified sure different sides too. “If Gandhi is going for an attraction, and the appellate court docket remains the order, it approach the disqualification stands suspended. Assume there is a hole of ten days, will he stay a member or now not throughout the ones days – that’s not transparent,” he mentioned.

    He additionally famous any other Constitutional provision. Below Article 103, the President has to claim whether or not a sitting member of both Space of Parliament is topic to disqualification. As consistent with the Constitutional provision, a choice on disqualification might be taken by way of the President.

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    “If anyone approaches the President asking whether or not this guy stands disqualified or now not, then the President has to inspect it in session with the Election Fee. The ECI will give its opinion and the President has abide by way of it,” he added. “On this case, automated disqualification won’t happen. However this could now not be in consonance with the apex court docket’s ruling. This offers upward thrust to ambiguity,” he seen.  

    Achary additional identified that the trial court docket itself has suspended the sentence for a month. The disqualification is immediately associated with the duration of sentence. Due to this fact logically if the sentence is suspended, the disqualification process would routinely stand suspended.

  • ‘Modi surname’ case: Rahul reacts to in charge verdict, quotes Gandhiji in tweet

    Through PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi quoted Mahatma Gandhi in a tweet about reality and non-violence after a court docket in Surat in Gujarat on Thursday sentenced him to 2 years in prison in a prison defamation case attached to his “Modi surname” remarks.

    “My faith is in line with reality and non-violence. Fact is my God, and non-violence is the way to get it. — Mahatma Gandhi,” the Congress chief wrote in a tweet in Hindi quickly after the court docket verdict.

    मेरा धर्म सत्य और अहिंसा पर आधारित है। सत्य मेरा भगवान है, अहिंसा उसे पाने का साधन।

    – महात्मा गांधी

    — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 23, 2023

    The court docket of Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace HH Varma sentenced Gandhi to 2 years in prison in a prison defamation case over his ‘Modi surname” commentary all the way through an election rally in Karnataka forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

    The court docket granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to permit him to attraction in the next court docket, the Congress chief’s attorney Babu Mangukiya mentioned.

    The court docket sentenced Gandhi below sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code coping with prison defamation, Mangukiya mentioned. Gandhi used to be provide within the court docket when it pronounced its verdict.

    The case used to be filed in opposition to Gandhi for his alleged “how come all of the thieves have Modi as the typical surname?” remarks in line with a grievance lodged by way of BJP MLA and previous Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi.

    The Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad made the remarks whilst addressing a rally at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019, all the way through Lok Sabha ballot campaigning.

    AHMEDABAD: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi quoted Mahatma Gandhi in a tweet about reality and non-violence after a court docket in Surat in Gujarat on Thursday sentenced him to 2 years in prison in a prison defamation case attached to his “Modi surname” remarks.

    “My faith is in line with reality and non-violence. Fact is my God, and non-violence is the way to get it. — Mahatma Gandhi,” the Congress chief wrote in a tweet in Hindi quickly after the court docket verdict.

    मेरा धर्म सत्य और अहिंसा पर आधारित है। सत्य मेरा भगवान है, अहिंसा उसे पाने का साधन।
    – महात्मा गांधीgoogletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
    — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 23, 2023
    The court docket of Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace HH Varma sentenced Gandhi to 2 years in prison in a prison defamation case over his ‘Modi surname” commentary all the way through an election rally in Karnataka forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

    The court docket granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to permit him to attraction in the next court docket, the Congress chief’s attorney Babu Mangukiya mentioned.

    The court docket sentenced Gandhi below sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code coping with prison defamation, Mangukiya mentioned. Gandhi used to be provide within the court docket when it pronounced its verdict.

    The case used to be filed in opposition to Gandhi for his alleged “how come all of the thieves have Modi as the typical surname?” remarks in line with a grievance lodged by way of BJP MLA and previous Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi.

    The Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad made the remarks whilst addressing a rally at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019, all the way through Lok Sabha ballot campaigning.