The Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the parliament.

 In a slander lawsuit involving Modi's surname, a Gujarat court sentences him to two years in prison.

In NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, a prominent member of the Indian opposition, has been barred from serving in parliament as a result of his defamation conviction, the national assembly announced in a notice on Friday.

 

The letter stated that Rahul Gandhi "stands disqualified from the member of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction."

 

The Lok Sabha's judgement comes one day after Gandhi was found guilty of defamation over a remark she made on the campaign trail in 2019 that appeared to suggest Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a felon. Gandhi, the prominent member of the opposition Congress party, was given a two-year prison term but was immediately given free after his attorneys declared they intended to appeal.

 

Akhilesh Pratap Singh, the spokesperson for the Congress, told AFP that his party had indeed received the notification. On Friday, Congress members protested against Gandhi's conviction and two-year prison sentence in certain regions of the nation. Officials from the opposition Congress Party have labelled the ruling as political in nature and placed the responsibility on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration as well as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Gandhi was found guilty by a Gujarati court, which also gave him bail and postponed the sentence for one month.

 

Congress is planning to launch an appeal

 

Gandhi has already complied with the court's decision, according to a close aide, and did not enter parliament on Friday during house proceedings. The Congress party's leaders declared that they were preparing to appeal the decision to a higher court. Pawan Khera, the party's national spokesperson, declared that "this war would be fought both legally and politically."

He declared that Rahul Gandhi "won't stop" raising challenging queries and exposing this government's active support and protection of crony businesses.

Members of the Congress party protested Gandhi's conviction and two-year prison term earlier in the day in certain regions of the nation.

 

Officials from the Congress party have labelled the ruling as political in nature and placed the responsibility on Modi's administration and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Rahul Gandhi's ascent has the BJP worried because he directly threatens the Modi administration, according to Congressman Pradip Bhattacharya of West Bengal. J.P. Nadda, the head of the BJP, rejected the accusations and claimed that Gandhi had insulted a group of Indians who just so happened to have the same last name as Prime Minister Modi.

 

An important political test

 

According to a second senior Congress leader who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to address the media, "It is a crucial political test for Gandhi and we are banking on regional parties to support the Congress and stand against Modi's party."

Gandhi has already gained backing from Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), two of whose top officials are currently incarcerated on what they claim are baseless allegations.

 

"Despite our disagreements with the Congress, it is improper to hold Rahul Gandhi accountable in a slander case of this nature. The opposition and the general public have a responsibility to enquire.

 

Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the AAP and the chief minister of Delhi, posted on Twitter on Thursday that "we respect the court but disagree with the judgement." On Friday, representatives from 12 opposition parties met with Mallikarjun Kharge, the head of the Congress, although it was unclear whether they would all join forces to protest the court's decision. Congress leaders have requested a meeting with President Draupadi Murmu to express their opposition to the conviction of the highest constitutional official, according to the office of India's president.

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The 150-day march of Gandhi is over

 The 150-day march of Gandhi is over. Will it, however, reinvigorate Congress?

 

SRIPERUMBUDUR: Rahul Gandhi, emulating Indian freedom icon Mahatma Gandhi, started his "long march" on Wednesday in an effort to stop the Congress party's ostensibly inevitable steady fall.

The Grand Old Party, which ruled for decades after India gained its independence from Britain in 1947, is now a discredited shell of its former self after being crushed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi (BJP).

 

Gandhi, who is not a descendant of the Mahatma but rather of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was mocked by Modi during the last two elections as an out-of-touch, pampered princeling and playboy. Gandhi worshipped at a monument in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, in the southern state, where his father Rajiv Gandhi was killed in 1991, just like his grandmother Indira had been seven years earlier.

 

"The politics of hatred and division cost me, my father. Gandhi, 52, declared on Twitter, "I will not lose my beloved country to it, either. He then travelled to the farthest southern point of India before circumnavigating the country in 150 days, walking 3,500 kilometres, concluding in Kashmir. However, it is unknown if he will walk the entire distance. He claimed that the purpose is to draw attention to Modi's, 71, government's chronic unemployment, skyrocketing inflation, and deepening polarisation between the majority of Hindus and religious minorities like Muslims.

 

Ahead of the massive march, Rahul addressed a gathering in New Delhi on Sunday. "I want to question you if price rises or hatred helps the country...Narendra Modi and the BJP are harming the country," he said.

"On the other side, the Congress party unites the nation. When enmity is eliminated, the nation advances more quickly. In a pivotal milestone for the independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi famously hiked 380 kilometres in 1930 to protest a salt charge imposed by British overlords.

 

Since India's independence in 1947, the Congress Party has been in power. However, since losing the 2014 national elections to the BJP and suffering a string of setbacks in state and municipal elections that followed, the Congress Party's power has steadily decreased. Analysts blame the party's dismal election performances on its inability to shed the influence of the Gandhi family and its lack of a defined ideological framework. It maintains a clear majority in just three of India's 31 states and union territories.

 

The National Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms report that 399 elective candidates left Congress between 2014 and 2021 to join other parties. The party lost 39 out of 49 state elections at that time. And while many well-known Congress leaders have encountered public unhappiness over the years, it was under Rahul Gandhi's de facto leadership that the party's electoral gains reached historic lows in the 2014 and 2019 general elections, winning just 44 and 52 seats, out of 543, respectively. Rahul Gandhi is frequently depicted as an inept and reticent politician by a section of the Indian media.

 

Some analysts now claim that the march is the first, if very minor, move in the correct approach to rescue Congress and its scion from the political wilderness. It's not a simple process. Rasheed Kidwai, a seasoned journalist and political analyst who has covered the Congress Party for decades, claimed that it takes leaders years to become recognised as national leaders. "Despite that, it is unorthodox what he [Rahul Gandhi] has been able to do with this yatra." Kidwai was eager to point out that the march might not be sufficient.

 

He said that the BJP was able to grow its vote percentage from 31 per cent in 2014 to 38 per cent five years later. "At the end of the day, it's the vote that matters," he remarked.

 

"Winning elections is a political party's job. That serves as the yardstick by which a party is judged. We must wait and observe how this yatra will affect the party's electoral success," he continued.

 

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