Rahul Gandhi, India’s most prominent opposition politician, has been disqualified from parliament, sparking criticism that the snap decision represented “a new low” for the country’s constitutional democracy a year ahead of a national election.
Gandhi was barred from serving as an MP on Friday, a day after he was convicted and sentenced to prison for two years by a court in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat over remarks he made in 2019 asking why people with the…
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