Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Indian Congress, was barred from the legislature.

 A day after being sentenced to two years in prison in a defamation case involving the surname of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, the head of the opposition Congress party, was disqualified from office by India's parliament on Friday.



A notice in the parliament stated that Gandhi "stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha," the lower house of parliament.

Gandhi, 52, was found guilty for referring to robbers by the surname Modi in a 2019 address. Prior to the most recent general election, he made the remark while running for office.


Gandhi was found guilty by a Gujarati court, which also gave him bail and postponed the sentence for one month.


Gandhi has already complied with the court's decision, according to a close aide, and did not enter parliament on Friday during house proceedings.


The Congress party's leaders declared that they were preparing to appeal the decision to a higher court.


Pawan Khera, the party's national spokesperson, declared that "this war would be fought both legally and politically."

He declared that Rahul Gandhi "won't stop" raising challenging queries and exposes this government's active support and protection of crony business.


Members of the Congress party protested Gandhi's conviction and two-year prison term earlier in the day in certain regions of the nation.


Officials from the Congress party have labelled the ruling as political in nature and placed the responsibility on Modi's administration and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Rahul Gandhi's ascent has the BJP worried because he directly threatens the Modi administration, according to Congressman Pradip Bhattacharya of West Bengal.


J.P. Nadda, the head of the BJP, rejected the accusations and claimed that Gandhi had insulted a group of Indians who just so happened to have the same last name as Prime Minister Modi.


"It is one thing to criticise the government's policies; that would be called a constructive debate, but plainly the Congress has never adhered to such principles," he told Reuters.

Before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi addressed a rally at Kolar and discussed the Cong's minimum income guarantee programme, brought up the Rafale allegations, and mentioned "absconders" Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi.


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