NSUI city unit protests Rahul’s disqualification from Parliament

Chandigarh: City unit of National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), the student-wing of the Congress party, on Friday, staged a protest against disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament at the PU Students’ Centre at Panjab University.
Led by NSUI city president Sachin Galav, party’s student leaders burned an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and raised slogans against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government.
The former Congress president was disqualified as member of Lok Sabha on Friday. A day after, the Surat court convicted him for two years in a 2019 defamation case. Addressing a rally in Karnataka, he had said, “how all thieves have Modi surnames.”
He was granted a 30-day bail to allow him to appeal in a higher court. The Lok Sabha secretariat on Friday issued a notification on his disqualification under Article 102 of the Constitution and Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act.
Galav criticised the move and called it “undemocratic”. He said, “From the day Rahul Gandhi raised questions about Adani, a conspiracy was initiated to silence him. They (the BJP) never allowed him to speak out, which is a clear case of an anti-democratic and dictatorial attitude by the BJP government. The BJP has committed a suicidal step.”