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A court finished hearing arguments in Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s appeal to suspend his defamation conviction and will pass an order on April 20, his lawyer said. Gandhi, a scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, wanted to secure a stay of his conviction from the court to be reinstated as a member of parliament. His defamation conviction carries a two-year prison term and if not lifted could see him barred from next year’s national elections.

Miguel Fernandez and Mary Ann Koruth, NorthJersey.com The only way to heal an India polarized by divisive politics is to build "a shop of love in the marketplace of hate," said Rahul Gandhi, Indian political scion and de-facto opposition leader to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's hard-line Hindu party, as he addressed a packed audience of expatriate Indians from New Jersey, New York and elsewhere at Manhattan's Javits Center this week. Gandhi, an outspoken critic of the highly popular Modi, enjoys high visibility among expatriate Indians. Barely 21 when his father, the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, was assassinated, and just a teenager when his grandmother Indira Gandhi was killed, Rahul Gandhi belongs to the long-reigning Nehru-Gandhi family that produced three Indian heads of state. Now 52, Gandhi has struggled to carve out a strong political identity as a counter to the charismatic Modi and his ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP. Modi's ascent to power in 2014 was viewed by many as a sign of the Indian electorate’s frustration with decades of party rule by the dynastic Indian National Congress. Gandhi’s recent six-day visit to the United States came just weeks before Modi makes his state visit to the U.S on June 22. We must build “a shop of love — nafrat ki bazaar mein muhabbat ki dukaan — in this marketplace of hatred,” by addressing issues that impact Indian citizens instead of dividing them, he said in Hindi to resounding applause at the Javits Cent...

The BJP has filed a defamation complaint against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court here. The special court exclusively to deal with criminal cases related to elected former and sitting MPs/MLAs has taken cognisance of the offences under Sections 499 (defamation) and 500 (punishment for defamation) of the Indian Penal Code and posted the case for recording the sworn statement on July 27. Summons were ordered to be issued on Tuesday to all the respondents in this regard. The private complaint alleging false claims in advertisements tarnishing the image of the BJP was filed by the party's state secretary S Keshavaprasad on May 9. According to the complaint, the advertisement released by the KPCC in major newspapers on May 5, 2023 in the run-up to the Assembly election claiming that the then incumbent BJP government indulged in "40 per cent corruption" and had looted Rs 1.5 lakh crore in the previous four years was "baseless, prejudiced and defamatory". Coming down heavily on the Congress on the issue of corruption, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (April 30) said the grand old party had always been associated with "85 per cent commission", and its "shahi parivar" (royal family) was out on bail in connection with scams worth thousands of crores of rupees. Addressing three rallies in 'Old Mysuru' (South K...