After disqualification, Rahul Gandhi says he will keep asking questions about Modi-Adani links

The Congress leader claimed that he has been disqualified as an MP because the prime minister is afraid of him speaking about the businessman in Parliament.

Mar 25, 2023 - 18:30

After disqualification, Rahul Gandhi says he will keep asking questions about Modi-Adani links

A day after he was disqualified as a Lok Sabha MP, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asserted that he will continue to ask questions about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and industrialist Gautam Adani.

Gandhi, who was the MP from Wayanad, was disqualified a day after a Gujarat court convicted him to two years in jail in a defamation case for his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname.

Under the Representation of the People Act, 1951, a legislator sentenced to jail for two years or more stands to be disqualified from the date of conviction until six years after serving time.

The Congress has alleged that Gandhi’s disqualification is an example of the Modi government’s “politics of vendetta, threat and intimidation”. On Friday, Opposition parties had held a march to protest against the court verdict as well as to demand a joint parliamentary committee invesitgation into the Adani Group.

Opposition leaders have accused the prime minister of favouring Gautam Adani, the founder of the Adani Group. Shares of Adani firms have plunged since January, when United States-based firm Hindenburg Research alleged that the conglomerate had used offshore tax havens improperly and manipulated stock prices.