Rahul gandhi disqualified

India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi speaks during a meeting of his party workers in Ahmedabad, India, on Sept. 5, 2022. Gandhi has lost his parliamentary seat after he was disqualified following a court decision that found him guilty of defamation over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ajit Solanki/AP hide caption toggle caption Ajit Solanki/AP India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi speaks during a meeting of his party workers in Ahmedabad, India, on Sept. 5, 2022. Gandhi has lost his parliamentary seat after he was disqualified following a court decision that found him guilty of defamation over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ajit Solanki/AP NEW DELHI — Key Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has lost his parliamentary seat after a court found him guilty of defamation over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname and he was disqualified from the lawmaking body, a parliamentary statement said on Friday. Gandhi, who represented a constituency in southern Kerala state as a member of the Congress party, was disqualified from his membership in the lower house of Parliament from March 23, the date of his conviction, the statement said. Indian parliamentary rules say that a member loses his or her seat if convicted of a crime and sentenced to two or more years in prison. A court in the western city of Surat sentenced Gandhi to two years in prison on Thursday in the defamation case. But he won't go t...

NEW DELHI, March 24 (Reuters) - Here's how Rahul Gandhi, leader of India's opposition Congress Party, was WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? Section 8(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the law that governs elections in India, mandates disqualification of any lawmaker who is "convicted of any offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than two years". A His disqualification as lawmaker came into effect from the date of conviction. A formal disqualification notice was issued on Friday by the secretariat of India's Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament of which Gandhi was a member. CAN GANDHI CONTEST ELECTIONS? Gandhi faces the risk of not being able to contest the next general election due in 2024 if his conviction is not suspended or overturned, or the sentence is not reduced by a higher court. The law also mandates that a convicted lawmaker cannot contest elections for six years after the end of their jail term. Gandhi represented the Wayanad constituency in the southern state of Kerala. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said on Friday the party was confident the conviction would be suspended. WHAT NEXT FOR GANDHI? To save his parliament seat, a convicted lawmaker has to secure an order from a higher court suspending the conviction, lawyers said. A lawmaker can be reinstated to parliament if the conviction is stayed or overturned and a fresh election to the seat had yet to be conducted. A reduced sentence would also remove the disqualification. Gan...

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He also termed the conviction bizarre and said, "For a statement made in respect of certain individuals, for him to be convicted for two years -- it is totally bizarre." Sibal had quit the Congress in May last year amid much bitterness and started his new platform "Insaaf ki Sipahi (platform for justice)". A court in Surat held him guilty in a 2019 criminal defamation case filed by BJP MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi. The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate HH Varma held Gandhi guilty under Indian Penal Code section 504, which deals with intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace. The Surat court sentenced Rahul Gandhi to two years of jail term. He was later granted bail and his two-year sentence was suspended for 30 days.

NEW DELHI, March 24 (Reuters) - Here's how Rahul Gandhi, leader of India's opposition Congress Party, was WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? Section 8(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the law that governs elections in India, mandates disqualification of any lawmaker who is "convicted of any offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than two years". A His disqualification as lawmaker came into effect from the date of conviction. A formal disqualification notice was issued on Friday by the secretariat of India's Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament of which Gandhi was a member. CAN GANDHI CONTEST ELECTIONS? Gandhi faces the risk of not being able to contest the next general election due in 2024 if his conviction is not suspended or overturned, or the sentence is not reduced by a higher court. The law also mandates that a convicted lawmaker cannot contest elections for six years after the end of their jail term. Gandhi represented the Wayanad constituency in the southern state of Kerala. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said on Friday the party was confident the conviction would be suspended. WHAT NEXT FOR GANDHI? To save his parliament seat, a convicted lawmaker has to secure an order from a higher court suspending the conviction, lawyers said. A lawmaker can be reinstated to parliament if the conviction is stayed or overturned and a fresh election to the seat had yet to be conducted. A reduced sentence would also remove the disqualification. Gan...

He also termed the conviction bizarre and said, "For a statement made in respect of certain individuals, for him to be convicted for two years -- it is totally bizarre." Sibal had quit the Congress in May last year amid much bitterness and started his new platform "Insaaf ki Sipahi (platform for justice)". A court in Surat held him guilty in a 2019 criminal defamation case filed by BJP MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi. The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate HH Varma held Gandhi guilty under Indian Penal Code section 504, which deals with intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace. The Surat court sentenced Rahul Gandhi to two years of jail term. He was later granted bail and his two-year sentence was suspended for 30 days.

India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi speaks during a meeting of his party workers in Ahmedabad, India, on Sept. 5, 2022. Gandhi has lost his parliamentary seat after he was disqualified following a court decision that found him guilty of defamation over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ajit Solanki/AP hide caption toggle caption Ajit Solanki/AP India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi speaks during a meeting of his party workers in Ahmedabad, India, on Sept. 5, 2022. Gandhi has lost his parliamentary seat after he was disqualified following a court decision that found him guilty of defamation over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ajit Solanki/AP NEW DELHI — Key Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has lost his parliamentary seat after a court found him guilty of defamation over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname and he was disqualified from the lawmaking body, a parliamentary statement said on Friday. Gandhi, who represented a constituency in southern Kerala state as a member of the Congress party, was disqualified from his membership in the lower house of Parliament from March 23, the date of his conviction, the statement said. Indian parliamentary rules say that a member loses his or her seat if convicted of a crime and sentenced to two or more years in prison. A court in the western city of Surat sentenced Gandhi to two years in prison on Thursday in the defamation case. But he won't go t...

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