India’s Congress party holds special prayers, stage protests over disqualification of Rahul Gandhi

Record ID: 1717594

  • Title: India’s Congress party holds special prayers, stage protests over disqualification of Rahul Gandhi
  • Date: 28th March 2023
  • Summary: GUWAHATI, ASSAM, INDIA (MARCH 28, 2023) (ANI - No use India) PROTESTERS FROM STUDENT WING OF INDIA'S OPPOSITION CONGRESS PARTY, NATIONAL STUDENTS UNION OF INDIA (NSUI), INCLUDING STATE PRESIDENT, NSUI ASSAM, KRISHANU BARUAH (WEARING ORANGE) SEATED WITH BANNER AND POSTERS PROTESTER HOLDING BANNER AND SITTING WITH OTHERS BARUAH OFFERING PRAYERS AS OTHERS SIT POSTER WITH PICTURE WITH HALF FACE OF INDIAN PRIME MINISTER, NARENDRA MODI AND GERMAN NAZI PARTY LEADER ADOLF HITLER PROTESTER WITH POSTER READING (Hindi): "MODI GOVERNMENT IS MURDERER OF DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTION" BARUAH AND OTHERS OFFERING PRAYERS POSTER WITH CROSS ON PICTURES OF MODI AND PRESIDENT OF THE RULING BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY, AMIT SHAH (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) STATE PRESIDENT, STUDENT WING OF INDIA'S OPPOSITION CONGRESS PARTY, NATIONAL STUDENTS UNION OF INDIA (NSUI), ASSAM, KRISHANU BARUAH, SAYING: "When Rahul Gandhi asked (Narendra) Modi what his relationship with (Gautam) Adani and (Mukesh) Ambani was then he didn't reply to that instead he disqualified Rahul Gandhi over a 2019 case. It is a political murder. They are thinking that they will be able to make Rahul Gandhi quiet but we are speaking, we are the soldiers of Rahul Gandhi, we are not going to be scared. We are offering prayers and asking God to give good sense to Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Himanta Biswa Sarma." SILIGURI, WEST BENGAL, INDIA (MARCH 28, 2023) (ANI - No use India) CONGRESS PARTY WORKERS, INCLUDING, DARJEELING DISTRICT CONGRESS COMMITTEE PRESIDENT, SHANKAR MALAKAR (CENTER) SITTING WITH POSTERS AND RAISING SLOGANS PROTESTERS RAISING SLOGANS POSTERS IN HANDS OF PROTESTERS MALAKAR AND OTHERS SEATED POSTERS IN HANDS OF PROTESTERS PROTESTERS RAISING SLOGANS PROTESTERS SEATED WITH POSTERS POSTER READING (English): "BLACK DAY FOR INDIAN DEMOCRACY" (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) PRESIDENT, DARJEELING DISTRICT CONGRESS COMMITTEE, SHANKAR MALAKAR, SAYING: "There are 325 members of the parliament that are along with (Narendra) Modi, half of the government of India is in his hands but despite that what he did to Rahul Gandhi…disqualified him from the parliament and he is trying to throw him (Rahul Gandhi) out of his house. So, seeing all this we are sure that Modi and BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) are scared of Rahul Gandhi." WAYANAD, KERALA, INDIA (MARCH 28, 2023) (ANI - No use India) VARIOUS OF CONGRESS PARTY WORKERS MARCHING WITH BANNER, FLAGS AND RAISING SLOGANS POLICE PERSONNEL WALKING PROTESTERS MARCHING WITH BANNER, FLAGS AND RAISING SLOGANS PROTESTERS CLIMBING ON BARRICADES VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS RAISING SLOGANS PROTESTERS STANDING
  • Embargoed: 11th April 2023 10:53
  • Keywords: Amit Shah BJP Congress protest India Narendra Modi NewDelhi Rahul Gandhi bail conviction court defamation disqualified parliament prayers protests
  • Location: NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI, ASSAM/ SILIGURI, WEST BENGAL/WAYANAD, KERALA, INDIA
  • City: NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI, ASSAM/ SILIGURI, WEST BENGAL/WAYANAD, KERALA, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA002I424RWV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:India's opposition Congress party workers held special prayers and protested against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government on Tuesday (March 28) to condemn the disqualification of their party leader Rahul Gandhi from the parliament.
    Gandhi, 52, lost his parliament seat on Friday (March 24), a day after a court in the western state of Gujarat convicted him and sentenced him to two years in jail for a defamatory comment he made during an election campaign rally in 2019.
    Gandhi is out on bail and his lawyers are expected to challenge the verdict in a higher court this week.
    Members of the student wing of the Congress Party, National Students Union of India (NSUI) gathered in eastern Guwahati city to offer prayers and ask God to give good sense to Modi and his party.
    "It is a political murder. They are thinking that they will be able to make Rahul Gandhi quiet but we are speaking, we are the soldiers of Rahul Gandhi, we are not going to be scared," said NSUI, Assam state President Krishanu Baruah.
    In New Delhi, both houses of parliament were also adjourned earlier in the day after lawmakers threw papers and raised slogans.
    Gandhi told reporters on Saturday (March 25) that he was disqualified from parliament for questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi about his relationship with Gautam Adani, the founder of the Adani group business conglomerate.
    Gandhi and other opposition leaders say the prime minister's longstanding ties with Gautam Adani helped the business group secure investments from state-run firms and win big ticket contracts such as the management of six airports.
    The Adani group is trying to rebuild investor confidence after U.S. short-seller Hindenburg Research accused it of stock manipulation and improper use of tax havens - charges the company has denied.
    Hindenburg's January 24 report eroded more than $100 billion in the value of the company's shares.
    Opposition lawmakers have been vocal about their demand for a joint parliamentary committee inquiry into Adani's finances, forcing the speaker to repeatedly adjourn proceedings of parliament.
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