{"id":215849,"date":"2023-03-25T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T02:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=215849"},"modified":"2023-03-25T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T02:48:48","slug":"indias-rahul-gandhi-disqualified-as-lawmaker-after-conviction-in-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=215849","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Rahul Gandhi Disqualified As Lawmaker After Conviction In Defamation Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Mar 25 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; The Indian parliament, yesterday disqualified the former leader of the main opposition party, Indian National Congress (INC), Rahul Gandhi, as a lawmaker, a day after his conviction in a defamation case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gandhi&#8217;s disqualification was issued by India&#8217;s lower house (Lok Sabha), citing his conviction. The Lok Sabha secretariat also declared his constituency vacant, and that the Election Commission of India can now announce a special election for the seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, he was sentenced to two years in prison by a local court, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, for a 2019 campaign trail remark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While he was not jailed immediately after the verdict, the 52-year-old politician was given bail for 30 days, during which he can file an appeal against his sentence.&#8211; NNN-PTI &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Mar 25 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; The Indian parliament, yesterday disqualified the former leader of the main opposition party, Indian National Congress (INC), Rahul Gandhi, as a lawmaker, a day after his conviction in a defamation case. Gandhi&#8217;s disqualification was issued by India&#8217;s lower house (Lok Sabha), citing his conviction. The Lok Sabha secretariat also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215855,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215849\/revisions\/215855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}