Rahul Gandhi disqualified as Lok Sabha MP after Surat court verdict

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New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Parliament membership was canceled on Friday. He was a Lok Sabha member from Wayanad in Kerala.

The Lok Sabha Secretariat has issued a letter giving information about this. In the defamation case, a Surat court sentenced him to 2 years in jail at 12.30 pm on Thursday.

Rahul Gandhi had made a statement about Modi surname in a meeting in Karnataka in 2019. “Why do all thieves have Modi as their surname?

On July 11, 2013, the Supreme Court had ruled that an MP or MLA would be disqualified from the date of conviction by the trial court. The court gave this order in the case of Lily Thomas vs. Government of India. Earlier, there was a provision not to terminate the membership of the MLA or MP until the final decision of the court.