Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was disqualified today as a member of Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, a day after his conviction and two-year prison sentence by a court in Surat in a four-year-old criminal defamation case.
Opposition parties led by Congress are today marching towards the Rashtrapati Bhavan from nearby Vijay Chowk amid heavy security deployment with a huge "democracy in danger" banner.
Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as a Member of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction in the criminal defamation case over his Modi surname remark, on March 23, reported ANI.