NEW DELHI: From being barred from contesting elections for eight years to shedding his official bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha has a number of doable ramifications. The Lok Sabha Secretariat on Friday notified Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lower House of Parliament inside a day after a courtroom in Surat convicted him in a 2019 prison defamation case and awarded two years of imprisonment to him.
“Consequent upon his conviction by the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Surat…Rahul Gandhi, Member of Lok Sabha representing the Wayanad Parliamentary Constituency of Kerala stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction i.E. 23 March, 2023,” the notification learn.
The case filed in opposition to the Congress chief was on a grievance by BJP MLA Purnesh Modi for his alleged comment, “How come all thieves have Modi as the common surname?” through the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Unless the next courtroom stays Gandhi’s conviction, consultants mentioned, he’ll proceed to stay disqualified from the Lok Sabha and in addition barred from contesting any election for a complete of eight years, two years of jail time period and one other six years from the date of his launch from jail, in response to Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.
As the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala turns vacant following disqualification of Gandhi from the Lower House, the Election Commission can “technically” maintain a bypoll to fill the seat as a couple of yr is left for conducting common elections in 2024.
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The time period of the current Lok Sabha expires someday in June.
An professional, who didn’t want to be named, felt that the Election Commission is prone to await the 30-day interval granted by the courtroom to permit Gandhi file an attraction in opposition to the conviction.
With his disqualification from the Lok Sabha, Gandhi may need to vacate his official bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi inside a month if he would not get a aid from the next courtroom, officers mentioned.
The former Congress president has been residing in an official bungalow, positioned on 12, Tughlaq Lane, because it was allotted to him following his victory in 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Amethi constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
