New Delhi: As a part of a protest in opposition to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, Wayanad District Congress Committee chief ND Appachan stated that the occasion will observe “Black Day” on Saturday. Rahul Gandhi was an MP from the Wayanad constituency in Kerala. Earlier, Leader of the Opposition in Kerala, VD Satheesan stated that the motion in opposition to Rahul Gandhi was “hasty and politically motivated”.
“The order disqualifying Rahul Gandhi from the post of MP in Lok Sabha was hasty and politically motivated. Congress will face the action of Lok Sabha Secretariat politically as well as legally”, LoP stated.
Satheesan stated, “The decision of the Surat court is not final. Congress believes in democracy and rule of law. The country has a legal system that extends up to the Supreme Court. Rahul Gandhi will come back through the legal route. Neither Rahul nor Congress can be silenced by this. We will still raise our voice for democracy and secular values.”
Yesterday, Gandhi was disqualified as a Member of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction (March 23) within the felony defamation case over his ‘Modi surname’ comment. This comes after the Surat courtroom on Thursday, sentenced Gandhi to 2 years imprisonment in a defamation case over his ‘Modi surname’ comment made in 2019 throughout an election rally in Karnataka.
Rahul Gandhi made the “how come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname” comment in April 2019, at a Lok Sabha election rally at Kolar in Karnataka. BJP MLA from Surat West, Purnesh Modi filed a felony defamation case in opposition to Rahul Gandhi.
Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha triggered a large political row with the BJP stating that the Congress chief was “a habitual loose cannon” and the Congress alleging that he was received “deliberately disqualified”.
Opposition leaders slammed the federal government after the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, and the Congress stated it might launch a folks`s motion on the difficulty.
