A court in India found opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation on Thursday for a speech he made in 2019 in which he referred to thieves as having the surname Modi, and sentenced him to two years in prison.
Gandhi's party said the case against him was brought by a “cowardly and dictatorial” BJP government because he was “exposing their dark deeds”.
Gandhi, one of Modi's main rivals ahead of the 2024 general election, won support from the AAM Aadmi Party that rules Delhi and two of whose top leaders are in jail on what they call trumped-up charges. “We have differences with the Congress, but it is not right to implicate Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case like this. It is the job of the public and the opposition to ask questions. We respect the court but disagree with the decision.”“The law of India has it that if an individual or an organisation has been defamed with scurrilous statements, scandalous comments, abuses or any defamatory remarks, then he or she has a right to seek redress,” BJP lawmaker Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters.
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