Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India’s opposition Congress party, claimed that his disqualification by the parliament was driven by politics.
Following his two-year prison term in a defamation case on Thursday, Mr. Gandhi was stripped of his MP status by the Indian parliament on Friday.
He made remarks disparaging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s last name in 2019 at an electoral rally, and the court found him guilty.
His removal, according to the BJP, followed parliamentary procedures.
A 2013 Supreme Court ruling states that a legislator who has been found guilty of a felony and given a sentence of two years or longer is immediately banned from serving in parliament.
Mr. Gandhi said the following during a news briefing on Saturday: “I couldn’t care less if I was eliminated… Disqualify me permanently. I won’t stop; I’ll keep going.”