Rahul Gandhi lost membership in the Lower House of Parliament after a Surat court convicted and sentenced him in a 2019 criminal defamation case. The case pertained to a remark he made using the surname 'Modi' while addressing a campaign event ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
A day after the Surat court granted bail to Rahul Gandhi in Modi surname case, party MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla demanding a debate in Parliament on the disqualification of the Congress leader as MP.
Addressing the media Former Union Finance Minister said, "The party (Congress) wants all the opposition parties to unite and continue to fight against the dictatorship of the Modi government."
"Had you gone there to display your arrogance or pressurise the judiciary or threaten the investigation agencies?" BJP leader said while speaking to the media.
Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the Competition Amendment Bill, 2023 even as the opposition forced adjournments in the two Houses of Parliament over its demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the Hindenburg-Adani row.
BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra alleged that the group of Congress leaders including the chief ministers of some Congress-ruled states will create "mayhem" in the name of appealing against the lower court's order convicting Rahul Gandhi in a 2019 criminal defamation case over his '
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday met his mother and former party president Sonia Gandhi ahead of his appearance in a Surat court to appeal against his conviction in a defamation case tomorrow.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday, hit out at Rahul Gandhi and called him "morally corrupt" for changing his stand regarding the disqualification of a convicted public representative.
The disqualification of Rahul Gandhi, one in a series of flashpoints between the Congress party and the ruling BJP, has united the opposition parties relentlessly accusing the Centre of diverting attention from the Adani issue by taking a hasty decision to disqualify Rahul Gandhi.
Rijiju reacted to Congress leader Digvijay Singh's tweet which thanked the German Foreign Affairs Ministry and Richard Walker for taking note of how Democracy is being compromised in India through the persecution of Rahul Gandhi.
Taking to Twitter, MP Singh said, "Thank you German Foreign Affairs Ministry and Richard Walker for taking note of how the Democracy is being compromised in India through the persecution of Rahul Gandhi."