Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi appealed against his conviction for defamation on Monday, seeking to overturn a judgment that resulted in his expulsion from parliament a year before a general election is due. Gandhi, 52, was convicted last month in a case brought by a state lawmaker from Prime Minister …
Read More »Rahul Gandhi to appeal jail sentence
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi will appeal a two-year jail sentence in a defamation case brought against him by lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), local media reported on Sunday. Gandhi, the 52-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty and leader of the Congress party, was …
Read More »India’s Rahul Gandhi loses parliament seat after conviction
Top opposition figure Rahul Gandhi was expelled from India’s parliament on Friday, a day after his defamation conviction for a remark seen as an insult against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi’s government has been widely accused of using the law to target and silence critics, and the case in the …
Read More »Twitter unblocks accounts of India’s Rahul Gandhi, other opposition leaders
Twitter unblocked the accounts of India’s main opposition party Congress, its leader Rahul Gandhi and other party officials on Saturday, days after suspending the accounts over a tweet on the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl. Gandhi’s account has 19.5 million followers. It was locked after he posted …
Read More »‘Our Death Rate is a Lie’: Rahul Gandhi Urges Modi to Tell ‘Truth’ About COVID-19 Mortality
In one of his sharpest attacks so far, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has taken the Narendra Modi-led government to task for not having handled India’s COVID-19 situation properly. India’s main opposition party, Congress, on Friday, slammed the Narendra Modi-led government for mishandling the country’s COVID-19 crisis. While addressing a press …
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