NEW DELHI, March 27— India’s parliament was adjourned today after noisy protests by opposition lawmakers over the expulsion from the house of top opposition figure Rahul...
NEW DELHI, March 27— India’s parliament was adjourned today after noisy protests by opposition lawmakers over the expulsion from the house of top opposition figure Rahul Gandhi.
Members of Gandhi’s opposition Congress party wore black shirts and scarves as parliament opened today. Some threw paper at the speaker, who then adjourned proceedings. Gandhi, 52, is the leading face of Congress, once the dominant force of Indian politics but now a shadow of its former self. The lower house of parliament ruled him ineligible to continue sitting as an MP on Friday, a day after his conviction in the defamation case.
Members of the government also said the remark was a smear against all those sharing the Modi surname, associated with the lower rungs of India’s traditional caste hierarchy. Legal action has been widely deployed against opposition party figures and institutions seen as critical of the Modi government in recent years.
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