Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s lawyer on April 29 argued in the Gujarat High Court that the offence for which Rahul Gandhi was handed a maximum sentence of two years in jail was not a serious matter that warranted his disqualification from contesting elections for eight years.
Rahul Gandhi’s Lawyer Argues In Gujarat High Court
It is mentioned the court began hearing the case on Rahul Gandhi’s plea seeking a stay on his conviction in the Modi surname remark.
Rahul Gandhi’s lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi pleaded for a stay on the conviction in a case that is ”neither serious in nature nor of moral turpitude” and is a ”non-cognizable and bailable offence”.
When Abhishek Manu Singhvi argued that Gandhi is facing irreversible damage, losing his seat in Parliament and his disqualification as an MP, the judge stated that greater duty is cast on him towards the people at large, and he should make statements within limits.
”If a bypoll was conducted for the Wayanad constituency which Gandhi represented before he was disqualified, its result cannot be undone even if the Congress leader won his appeal against the conviction,” Singhvi said further.
