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Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has claimed that he was disqualified from parliament for asking tough questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about his relationship with Gautam Adani, founder of the Adani conglomerate.
Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has responded by saying that Gandhi was punished under the law for a defamatory comment he made in 2019 and that it had nothing to do with the Adani issue.
Gandhi, a former president of India’s main opposition Congress party who is still its main leader, lost his parliamentary seat on Friday, a day after a court in the western state of Gujarat convicted him in a defamation case and sentenced him to two years in jail.
The court granted him bail and suspended his jail sentence for 30 days, allowing him to appeal.
The defamation case was filed in connection with comments…
2023-03-25 12:05:44
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