New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday said he is fighting for the voice of India and is ready to pay any price, hours after he was disqualified from Lok Sabha.
In a tweet in Hindi, the 52-year-old former Congress president said, “I am fighting for the voice of India. I am ready to pay any price.”
मैं भारत की आवाज़ के लिए लड़ रहा हूं।
मैं हर कीमत चुकाने को तैयार हूं।
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 24, 2023
Announcing his disqualification, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a notification said it was effective from March 23, the day of his conviction.
Thursday, a court in Surat sentenced Gandhi to two years in jail in a defamation case, filed on a complaint by BJP MLA Purnesh Modi for his remark, “How come all thieves have Modi as the common surname?”
PTI