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Gandhi says disqualification ‘politically motivated’
The leader of Indian’s opposition Congress Party Rahul Gandhi has said his disqualification by parliament was politically motivated.
On Friday, India’s parliament stripped Gandhi of his MP status a day after he was sentenced to two years in prison in a defamation case.
He was convicted by the court for 2019 comments about PM Narendra Modi’s surname at an election rally. The governing BJP says his expulsion conformed with parliamentary rules.
A 2013 Supreme Court order says that a lawmaker convicted in a crime and sentenced to two or more years in jail stands disqualified from the parliament with immediate effect.
(BBC)