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Rahul sentenced to jail over Modi remark

AHMEDABAD:\ A lower court in India convicted opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday to two years in jail on charges of defamation for a 2019 speech in which he referred to robbers as having the surname Modi.

Although Rahul Gandhi plans to challenge the ruling in a higher court, any jail time or expulsion from the House of Representatives would be a setback for the Congress party in the run-up to the general election in 2024, which Prime Minister Narendra  Modi's party is widely predicted to win.

A magistrate's court in the Gujarat state capital of Surat—hometown—issued Modi's the ruling. An elected official from Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party from Gujarat filed the lawsuit (BJP).

The 52-year-old political heir to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, Rahul Gandhi, was present when the Surat court instantly granted him bail and suspended the sentence for one month.

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Harish Varma, the chief judicial magistrate of Surat, stated in his order that "Accused Rahul Gandhi is adjudged guilty... and sentenced to two years' simple imprisonment."

Ketan Reshamwala, an advocate for plaintiff Purnesh Modi, said the court had set up Gandhi’s comment scandalous. "

According to Kanchan Gupta, a federal government adviser, Gandhi could be immediately expelled from parliament following the conviction, in accordance with a 2013 ruling by the nation's highest court.

Congress spokesperson and top lawyer Abhishek Singhvi told a news conference that the party believed Gandhi may be disqualified.

The stay of conviction is necessary for the disqualification issue, he explained. Any reasonable system would give a person sufficient time to take some legal way to stay the conviction," he said." "Any reasonable, fair, non-oppressive, non-biased system."

Rahul Gandhi mentioned the prime minister and two wanted Indian businessmen with the surname Modi in his address prior to the most recent general election in 2019 when discussing alleged high-level corruption in the nation.

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Gandhi, a powerful MP and former Congress president, told the court on Thursday that his remark was not directed at any particular community.

Congress members came together in support of Gandhi, and numerous state organisations planned demonstrations for later today and Friday.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge claimed on Twitter that "the Modi government is a victim of political bankruptcy." We'll file an appeal with a higher court.

 Rahul Gandhi also gained backing from the Aam Aadmi Party( AAP) that runs Delhi and two of whose top leaders are in jail on what they say trumped- up allegations.

The public and the opposition have a duty to inquire. The leader of the AAP and Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, posted on Twitter that he respected the court but disagreed with its ruling.

Gandhi's once-dominant Congress now holds less than 10% of the elected seats in the lower house of parliament and suffered crushing defeats to the BJP in the most recent two general elections.

 Modi is India’s most popular politician by a wide margin and polls show he is expected to win a third victory at the election next year.

 Indian law also has provisions that classify defamation as a criminal offence punishable by a jail term of up to two years, in contrast to many other countries where it is a civil offence.

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