Rahul Gandhi, who was disqualified as an MP after being convicted in the criminal defamation case over the 'Modi surname' remark, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said, "My name is not Savarkar, my name is Gandhi. Gandhis don't apologise to anyone".
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday, alleged that the BJP-led centre is allegedly protecting the businessman Gautam Adani in the Adani stocks issue because they themselves are Adani.
Days after Rahul Gandhi's conviction by the Surat court, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said that no attempts were made to seek a stay on the magistrate court's verdict to encash Rahul Gandhi's conviction in Karnataka assembly polls.
The Congress leader stated, "I will keep asking questions on Adani issue, they cannot scare me by disqualification or putting me in jail. I won't back down."
BJP Tamil Nadu chief K Annamalai on Saturday said that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi had in 2013 opposed the move to protect convicted lawmakers from instant disqualification.
The plea challenges the constitutional validity of Section 8(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 which lays down the automatic disqualification of a legislator while terming it illegal.
A Fast Track Special Court (FTSC) in Raipur on Friday convicted a 22-year-old man for abducting and raping a minor girl and sentenced him to 20 years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI).
After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from being a Lok Sabha MP, party leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday took a dig at the order and said that he was stunned by the "rapidity" of the action and termed it as "politics with the gloves off".
A day after its MP Rahul Gandhi was convicted by a Surat court in a defamation case and sentenced to two years in jail, the Congress party has today planned a massive agitation. It has planned a protest at the Vijay Chowk here today.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday alleged that Rahul Gandhi disrespects every democratic institution of the country and added that the Congress leader should come out of his "dynastic mindset".