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Rahul Gandhi's Wayanad seat also became vacant after his disqualification. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will give his first press conference this afternoon after being disqualified from the Lok Sabha. The presser is scheduled for 1 pm Gandhi lost his parliamentary status after a Gujarat court found him guilty in a criminal libel case and sentenced him to two years in prison on Thursday.
In his first remarks after the disqualification, the former Wayanad MP said he was willing to "pay any price." "I am fighting for the voice of India. I am willing to pay any price," Gandhi tweeted yesterday in Hindi.
The former Congress leader's Wayanad seat also became vacant following his disqualification.
Gandhi was found guilty of libel on Thursday over a 2019 election campaign comment that implied Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a criminal. "How come all the thieves have Modi as a common surname?" he commented in the Karnataka Kolar, after which several complaints were filed against him in various states.
The Surat court that sentenced Mr. Gandhi also granted him a 30-day bail to allow him to appeal the decision.
"My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God, non-violence is the path to it," he tweeted, quoting Mahatma Gandhi, in his first comment after the verdict.
