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India court refuses stay on Rahul Gandhi defamation conviction

Rahul Gandhi, currently on bail, is the leading face of the Congress party, once the dominant force in Indian politics but now a shadow of its former self. – EPA pic, July 7, 2023.

TOP Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s efforts to overturn his expulsion from parliament were again blocked today when a court refused to stay his jail sentence for defamation. Gandhi was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for comments he made in 2019, which a court ruled were insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and those sharing his surname.

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