Rahul Gandhi - report

Indian politician

Rahul Rajiv Gandhi is an Indian politician and a former member of the Indian Parliament, who represented the constituencies of Amethi, Uttar Pradesh and Wayanad, Kerala in the Lok Sabha. He is a member of the main opposition party, the Indian National Congress and was the party president from December 2017 to July 2019. He is the chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress, the National Students Union of India and a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. On 23 March 2023, he was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment by a court in Gujarat for a 2019 speech made against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on defamation allegations related to his surname; the conviction resulted in his disqualification from the Parliament.

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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is facing allegations that he made an ‘indecent’ gesture in the Parliament while female MPs were present. The gesture in question was a ‘flying kiss’ Member of Parliament from the Bharatiya Janata Party accused him of a Misogynistic act.
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Congress leader and MP from Wayanad, Kerala, Rahul Gandhi returned to the parliament on Monday 7 August. His disqualification was revoked following a Supreme Court order on 3 August staying the conviction in the Modi surname remark case.
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Supreme Court stays Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in ‘Modi surname’ remark criminal defamation case. Decision paves the way for him to return to Parliament and resume his duties. Gandhi, 53, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in March.
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Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that the world and the country know that this has been done to shut Rahul Gandhi in the Parliament. Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
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Gujarat High Court on Friday refused to stay the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the 'Modi surname' defamation case. Gandhi was convicted by a Surat court in March and subsequently disqualified as an MP. The case was filed by BJP leader Purnesh Modi based on a speech given by Gandhi in 2019.
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Security forces stopped his convoy at Bishnupur, about 20 km from the capital Imphal. Teargas shells were then fired to disperse a crowd that had started gathering. Gandhi arrived at Imphal for a two-day visit to strife-torn Manipur on Thursday.
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Gandhi was speaking at the ‘Mohabbat Ki Dukaan’ event organised by Indian Overseas Congress USA. People from the audience started raising slogans against him and the Gandhi family in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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Congress won an absolute majority in Karnataka on Saturday. The party crossed the halfway mark of 113 seats in the 224-member assembly. The ruling BJP is ahead in 62 seats.
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A stay order could have paved the way for Gandhi's reinstatement as Member of Parliament (MP) Senior Congress leaders said that the party will now appeal against the order in the Gujarat High Court. A court last month sentenced him to two years in prison for defamation.
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Rahul Gandhi found guilty of defamation over a speech he gave in 2019 in which he referred to people with the surname Modi as thieves. Gandhi will now not be able to contest elections for eight years, a major setback for the opposition party.
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Rahul Gandhi was found guilty in a 2019 defamation case by a Surat court on Thursday. The defamation case pertained to his remarks on the 'Modi surname' He had allegedly said, "How come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?"
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BJP slams Rahul Gandhi for claiming that whether he is permitted to speak in Parliament is a test of democracy. Former Union minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad accused Gandhi of making it a habit of seeking to derail and demean Indian democracy.
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Rahul Gandhi said democracy in India is under attack and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ‘blowing our country to smithereens’ Union minister Anurag Thakur said the Congress lost in elections but their bankruptcy was evident when they lost no opportunity to malign India.
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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi slammed the Narendra Modi government over ‘Agnipath’ scheme. Claimed it was imposed on the Army by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Gandhi was speaking in Lok Sabha where he questioned PM Modi and Adani’s relationship.
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge heaped praise on his party colleague Rahul Gandhi. The Wayanad MP has proven that he can unite the country from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. The yatra has traversed 12 states and two Union Territories in 146 days.