{"id":301880,"date":"2023-03-26T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/26\/priyanka-gandhi-m-kharge-at-protest-over-rahul-gandhis-disqualification\/"},"modified":"2023-03-26T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T04:56:00","slug":"priyanka-gandhi-m-kharge-at-protest-over-rahul-gandhis-disqualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/26\/priyanka-gandhi-m-kharge-at-protest-over-rahul-gandhis-disqualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Gandhi, M Kharge At Protest Over Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s Disqualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-03\/rhc9hrsg_priyanka-gandhi_625x300_26_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=\"Priyanka Gandhi Leads Congress Protest Over Rahul Gandhi Disqualification\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Priyanka Gandhi Leads Congress Protest Over Rahul Gandhi Disqualification\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Priyanka Gandhi Leads Congress Protest Over Rahul Gandhi Disqualification\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-03\/45sd6q3g_priyanka-gandhi_625x300_26_March_23.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-26T10:30:10+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=690127&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\/26032023_n_CongressProtest_42205_9628_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T7M58S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-03\/45sd6q3g_priyanka-gandhi_625x300_26_March_23.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=650,height=400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=690127&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 was disqualified on Friday, a day after he was found guilty of defamation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Congress is\u00a0holding\u00a0a day-long<em> satyagraha<\/em> across the country today to protest party leader Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s disqualification from the Lok Sabha.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>In Delhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are\u00a0leading the <em>satyagraha<\/em>\u00a0even after their protest request at Raj Ghat was turned down by the police in view of law and order and traffic reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Police has increased the security and banned large gatherings around Raj Ghat.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress called Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s disqualification a &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; to silence the leader, who has been dogged in his attacks on Prime Minister Narendra\u00a0Modi and has been the de facto head of the main opposition party for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>A combative Rahul Gandhi yesterday hit out at the\u00a0Prime Minister over his disqualification and used a Veer Savarkar reference to answer why he didn&#8217;t apologise over his remarks in London and during the defamation trial in which he was convicted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been disqualified as the Prime Minister is scared of my next speech. I have seen fear in his eyes. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t want me to speak in the Parliament,&#8221; said the Congress leader.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the BJP&#8217;s calls for apology, he said, &#8220;My name is not Savarkar. I am a Gandhi. I won&#8217;t apologise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gandhi was disqualified on Friday, a day after he was found guilty of defamation by a court in Gujarat for a 2019 campaign trail remark seen as insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and billed by the BJP as one that degraded the entire Modi community.<\/p>\n<p>The court also granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to allow him to appeal to a higher court. His lawyers vowed to appeal the verdict in a higher court.<\/p>\n<p>The Lok Sabha Secretariat also declared his constituency in Kerala&#8217;s Wayanad vacant. The Election Commission can now announce a special election for the seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The disqualification also bars him from contesting polls for eight years unless a higher court stays his conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP has said the conviction has come from an independent judiciary, with party president JP Nadda accusing Mr Gandhi of insulting an Other Backward Class (OBC) community &#8211; a key vote base for the party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/rahul-gandhi-disqualification-rahul-gandhi-defamation-case-congress-satyagraha-congresss-nationwide-protest-against-rahul-gandhis-disqualification-tod-3893747\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Rahul Gandhi was disqualified on Friday, a day after he was found guilty of defamation New Delhi: The Congress is\u00a0holding\u00a0a day-long satyagraha across the country today to protest party leader Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s disqualification from the Lok Sabha.\u00a0\u00a0In Delhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are\u00a0leading the satyagraha\u00a0even after their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[437,435,367971],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301880"}],"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=301880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}