Guwahati: Members of the Congress party organised large-scale rallies around the nation on Saturday following Rahul Gandhi’s exclusion from the Lok Sabha.
Leaders of the Congress party took to the streets at Wayanad and several protesters even set fire to an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Workers for the Young Congress in Bengaluru made the decision to march to the PM Modi-to-be-opened metro station. The demonstrators were stopped as they marched to the Visvesvaraya metro station in Bengaluru, which is close to the City Civil Court.
The New Delhi-Chandigarh Shatabdi train was stopped in Punjab by the Chandigarh Youth Congress at the Chandigarh railway station. MVA MLAs in Maharashtra held a silent protest outside the State Legislature.
Rahul Gandhi, who has been barred from serving in the Lok Sabha amid controversy declared on Friday that he is prepared to pay any price to protect the voice of the nation.
A massive protest march was also organized in Guwahati of Assam against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi. The protest was led by Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Debabrata Saikia.
The Indian National Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for allegedly plotting to bar Rahul Gandhi from serving in the Lok Sabha.
On March 23, Rahul Gandhi was found guilty of criminal defamation for his remark about the “Modi surname,” and as of that day, he was ineligible to serve in the Lok Sabha.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was found guilty on Thursday and given a two-year prison term in a defamation case that was brought against him in 2019 over allegedly disparaging comments he made about the “Modi surname.” The judge granted him bail and deferred the punishment for 30 days in order to give him time to file an appeal with a higher court.
In the build-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha general elections, Gandhi had allegedly remarked, “how come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?” during a public rally at Kolar in Karnataka. Based on it, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi had lodged a complaint against the Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi.