Rahul Gandhi disqualified as MP, can’t contest polls for 8 years if conviction not stayed

Rahul Gandhi was on Friday disqualified as an MP from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in compliance with the Surat trial court order, which had on Thursday convicted him in a criminal defamation case and sentenced him to two years, in a development which escalated BJP's confronation with Congress and widened its arc with many others in the opposition rallying for the Congress leader.

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