Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha was a “suicide target”. He said, ‘Told PTI-Bhasha that this issue will ultimately benefit the opposition parties and Rahul Gandhi.’ “It will have some unforeseen consequences for the BJP.
Tharoor said, ‘Today there are headlines in every capital about what happened to Rahul Gandhi. Secondly, the BJP has created a ground for opposition unity which was not there before. He also questioned the sentence awarded to Rahul Gandhi by a court in Surat. Rahul Gandhi, who represents the Wayanad parliamentary seat in Kerala, was on Friday disqualified from the Lok Sabha after his conviction by a Surat court in 2019 in a defamation case.
A notification issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat said that his disqualification order would be effective from March 23. The notification states that he (Rahul Gandhi) has been disqualified under Article 102(1) of the Constitution and Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. Significantly, a Surat court on Thursday convicted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case filed in 2019 over his ‘Modi surname remark’ and sentenced him to two years in prison.
