Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday questioned the disqualification of occasion chief Rahul Gandhi as a Lok Sabha member following his conviction in a defamation case.The two have been speaking to the media after taking part in a seminar on “Protection and Upliftment of the Constitution” organised by the Madhya Pradesh unit of the All-India Professional Congress right here.
Nath famous that the trial for felony defamation was carried out in Gujarat over a press release made by Gandhi in Karnataka 4 years in the past. He wished to ask the attorneys current on the seminar whether or not the motion taken towards Gandhi was “bona fide or mala fide” (taken with good or dangerous intent), the Madhya Pradesh Congress chief mentioned.
Tharoor mentioned that Gandhi, in his assertion on the election rally in Karnataka, had named three-four folks, and it didn’t convey the which means that each one folks with the surname `Modi’ are thieves.
“Both the interpretations of Gandhi’s statement should have been understood, and if at all any minimum punishment was to be awarded, he could have been given a warning that he should not repeat such action and the case should have been closed,” he mentioned.
But the court docket awarded Rahul Gandhi two years’ jail time period which was the utmost punishment for the offence and that was why he was disqualified as an MP, Tharoor mentioned, including that this was a really dangerous growth.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP additionally mentioned that the assertion in query had been made at an election rally the place plenty of issues are mentioned. “People say many things in an election speech. You all know what the BJP has said about me or Kamal Nath during elections,” he mentioned.
