Announcing Rahul Gandhi's disqualification, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a notification said that it was effective from March 23, the day of his conviction.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from Lok Sabha on Friday following his conviction in the criminal defamation case over his 'Modi surname' remark. He바카라 웹사이트was convicted by the Surat court for his 2019 remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday.
Following his conviction, a war of words바카라 웹사이트sparked바카라 웹사이트on the internet about whether the Congress leader will be barred from Lok Sabha. While some like Kanchan Gupta, Senior Adviser to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry,바카라 웹사이트have said that the바카라 웹사이트Wayanad바카라 웹사이트MP is "automatically" disqualified with the conviction, others maintained that바카라 웹사이트he could바카라 웹사이트overturn his own disqualification.
However, today, the Lok Sabha secretariat confirmed that Gandhi has been disqualified from Parliament.바카라 웹사이트Announcing his disqualification, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a notification said that it was effective from March 23, the day of his conviction.바카라 웹사이트
"Consequent upon his conviction by the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Surat...Rahul Gandhi, Member of Lok Sabha representing the Wayanad Parliamentary Constituency of Kerala stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction i.e. 23 March, 2023," the notification read. It referred to the provisions of the Article 102(1)(e) of the Constitution of India read with Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.바카라 웹사이트
Here are some other바카라 웹사이트well-known politicians who were disqualified from their political positions바카라 웹사이트in the past after being convicted by a court.
Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was the first MLA from the state to be disqualified after the Supreme Court judgement ruled바카라 웹사이트in 2014 on the바카라 웹사이트Representation of the People Act바카라 웹사이트that prevents convicted politicians from holding office. She was convicted for allegedly misusing her office during her tenure between 1991 and 1996, which also included allegations of corruption. The case lasted 18 years.
The바카라 웹사이트Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav was disqualified in 2013 after he was바카라 웹사이트convicted in the first of the many바카라 웹사이트fodder scams that were unearthed and was sentenced to five years in jail.바카라 웹사이트The case is related to the fraudulent withdrawal of money from the Dorandra treasury in 1995-1996.바카라 웹사이트Following the conviction, he was barred from contesting the elections for 11 years.
Samajwadi Party MLA Abdullah Azam Khan was disqualified from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly earlier바카라 웹사이트this year,바카라 웹사이트days after a court sentenced him to two-year imprisonment in a 15-year-old case. This was his second disqualification from the Assembly.바카라 웹사이트
Abdullah Azam Khan, along with his father, was sentenced under section 353 (criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and other provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) over a dharna on a state highway on January 29, 2008 as their cavalcade was stopped by police for checking in the wake of an attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur on December 31, 2007.바카라 웹사이트The court, however, granted bail to both of them.
Earlier, Abdullah Azam라이브 바카라 father Azam Khan was disqualified on October 28, 2022 after his conviction in a 2019 hate speech case during Lok Sabha elections. Azam Khan was the Rampur Sadar MLA.바카라 웹사이트
National Congress Party (NCP) MP from Lakshwadeep, Mohammad Faizal was disqualified earlier this year after him and three others, were sentenced to 10 years of jail in connection with an attempt to murder case in 2009.바카라 웹사이트
BJP MLA from Khautali, Vikram Saini was disqualified in November 2022 after he was sentenced to a two-year imprisonment following his alleged role in the Muzaffarnagar Riots in 2013.바카라 웹사이트
Another BJP MLA from Madhya Pradesh,바카라 웹사이트Prahlad Lodhi was disqualified in 2019 after a Bhopal court sentenced him and바카라 웹사이트12 others to two years in jail for attacking a Tehsildar (revenue official) in 2014. However, the MP High Court바카라 웹사이트put a stay on conviction and the jail term and said that바카라 웹사이트he was disqualified by the state assembly speaker in a "hurried manner". A month later, he got back his House membership after the Supreme Court upheld the stay by the High Court.
(With inputs from PTI)