Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi. File
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Wearing black attire and holding placards, Congress legislators on March 29 took out a rally from MLA quarters to the Assam Assembly, protesting the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha.
The Budget session of the Assembly resumed on Wednesday morning after a week-long recess. The Congress MLAs marched from the official residence of the Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia to the gates of the Assembly constructing. The MLA quarters are situated contained in the bigger Assembly advanced within the Dispur locality.
“We protested against the undemocratic- and unconstitutional treatment meted out to our leader Rahul Gandhi. It’s a death of democracy and we cannot accept that,” Congress MLA Rekibuddin Ahmed instructed PTI contained in the Assam Assembly advanced.
He mentioned the occasion will demand a dialogue contained in the House and transfer a decision for a similar after the Question Hour in the course of the day. The placards had slogans comparable to ‘We Stand with Rahul Gandhi’, ‘Murder of Democracy Not Allowed‘, ‘Rahul Gandhi Zindabad’, ‘Save Democracy’, ‘Save Constitution’ and ‘Dictatorship Not Allowed’ amongst others in a mixture of Assamese and English languages.
Later, all of the Congress MLAs entered the House carrying black attire from head to toe and joined the proceedings.
Mr. Gandhi was on Friday disqualified from Lok Sabha following his conviction by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case. The disqualification will bar 52-year-old Rahul Gandhi from contesting polls for eight years except the next court docket stays his conviction and sentence.
The Surat court docket on Thursday sentenced the Congress chief to 2 years in jail in a defamation case, filed on a criticism by BJP MLA Purnesh Modi for his alleged comment, “How come all thieves have Modi as the common surname?”
