{"id":301268,"date":"2023-03-24T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/24\/when-rahul-gandhi-defended-rule-that-led-to-disqualification-as-mp-today\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T13:11:00","slug":"when-rahul-gandhi-defended-rule-that-led-to-disqualification-as-mp-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/24\/when-rahul-gandhi-defended-rule-that-led-to-disqualification-as-mp-today\/","title":{"rendered":"When Rahul Gandhi Defended Rule That Led To Disqualification As MP Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-03\/pu4uvn5_rahul-gandhi-ani_650x400_05_March_23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"'Complete nonsense': Rahul Gandhi on ordinance to protect convicted netas\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"'Complete nonsense': Rahul Gandhi on ordinance to protect convicted netas\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"'Complete nonsense': Rahul Gandhi on ordinance to protect convicted netas\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-03\/jbblq5bg_rahul-gandhi-2013_625x300_24_March_23.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-24T18:52:30+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=292241&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/27092013_n_TopRahulGandhi_254777_137388.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T3M02S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-03\/jbblq5bg_rahul-gandhi-2013_625x300_24_March_23.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=650,height=400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=292241&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Rahul Gandhi in a September 2013 press conference criticising the Congress&#8217;s ordinance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s disqualification from the Lok Sabha after his conviction in a criminal defamation case comes under a Supreme Court order that the Congress itself tried to overturn using an ordinance in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court in April 2013 held that MPs and MLAs convicted with a minimum two-year sentence will be immediately disqualified from the house without getting three months to appeal, as was the case until then.<\/p>\n<p>Five months later that year, the ruling Congress government in the centre hurriedly pushed an ordinance that sought to overturn the rule that disqualifies convicted MPs and MLAs.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Mr Gandhi openly came out against his party&#8217;s decision and called the move a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/president-unsure-of-compelling-reasons-for-ordinance-to-protect-convicted-lawmakers-sources-535857\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complete nonsense<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I personally think what the government is doing on the ordinance is wrong. It was a political decision, every party does it, and there is a time to stop this nonsense&#8230; If we actually want to stop corruption then we cannot make these compromises,&#8221; Mr Gandhi, who was 43 then, had said, underscoring a seeming divide within his party. He said the ordinance should be &#8220;torn and thrown out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress eventually scrapped the ordinance. The BJP came to power in the centre a year later and the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi became Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today, the Lok Sabha disqualified Mr Gandhi after his conviction in a criminal defamation case filed by a BJP leader for asking whether people with the surname &#8220;Modi&#8221; are &#8220;thieves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He is no longer an MP under a rule that his party once wanted to do away with and for which he stood up against his own party.<\/p>\n<p>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have said the remark by Mr Gandhi was a smear against all those sharing the Modi surname, which is associated with Other Backward Classes, or OBCs. They said Mr Gandhi&#8217;s conviction has got nothing to do with them and the case followed the due process of law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rahul Gandhi made very derogatory remark and disgraced an entire OBC (Other Backward Classes) Community. Shockingly, some Congress leaders are trying to defend it,&#8221; BJP leader and Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said.<\/p>\n<p>Several opposition leaders have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/arvind-kejriwals-sharp-attack-on-pm-narendra-modi-over-rahul-gandhis-disqualification-as-lok-sabha-mp-3889880\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">condemned the BJP government<\/a> over what they called the use of a frivolous and bizarre case to target Mr Gandhi a year before the national election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/when-rahul-gandhi-defended-rule-in-2013-that-led-to-disqualification-as-mp-today-3890237\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Rahul Gandhi in a September 2013 press conference criticising the Congress&#8217;s ordinance New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s disqualification from the Lok Sabha after his conviction in a criminal defamation case comes under a Supreme Court order that the Congress itself tried to overturn using an ordinance in 2013. The Supreme Court in April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[367189,435,367214,367202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}