In a letter sent by the Lok Sabha Housing Committee to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, he has been asked to vacate his bungalow at 12 Tughlaq Lane by April 22. On March 24, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha after a Gujarat court sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment in the ‘Modi surname’ defamation case.
Rahul Gandhi. (Photo Credits: Facebook)
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Monday asked to vacate his official residence after being disqualified as a Member of Parliament.
According to a report published in The Hindu, a letter has been sent to the Congress leader by the Lok Sabha Housing Committee, asking him to vacate his 12 Tughlaq Lane bungalow by April 22. BJP MP CR Patil is the chairman of the housing committee.
On March 23, the Lok Sabha secretariat disqualified Rahul Gandhi after he was convicted and sentenced to two years in the ‘Modi surname’ defamation case by a local Gujarat court on March 23.
According to Section 8(3) of the Representation of the People Act-1951, if an MP is convicted of an offense and sentenced to a minimum of two years’ imprisonment, he will be eligible for disqualification.
The letter sent by the Deputy Secretary of the Housing Committee on Monday said that he can retain the bungalow till April 22 and the allotment of the house stands canceled from March 23, the day he was convicted.
Meanwhile, the Congress on Tuesday Rahul Gandhi Has released a video clip, in which he is saying, ‘Whether I get membership or not, I will do my job. Even if they disqualify me completely, I will do my work. Even if I am reinstated, I will do my work. It doesn’t matter to me whether I am inside or outside Parliament. As I see it, my job is to protect the democracy of India and I will do that.
According to Hindustan Times, party chief Mallikarjun Kharge said, “They will make every effort to weaken him (Rahul Gandhi), but if he vacates the bungalow, he will stay with his mother or come to me.” I will vacate a bungalow.
Kharge said, ‘I condemn the attitude of the government to intimidate, threaten and humiliate them. This is not the way. Sometimes we live without a bungalow for three to four months. I got my bungalow after six months. People do this to humiliate others.
At the same time, on the notice to vacate the government accommodation, senior Congress leaders said that there is nothing surprising in this. Congress general secretary KC Venugopal told reporters that Rahul Gandhi was not concerned about the house as there were bigger issues at stake. Party spokesperson Salman Anees Soz said that ‘literally lakhs of Indians’ would happily give a house to Rahul Gandhi.
It may be known that on March 23, a court in Surat in Gujarat sentenced Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to two years in jail in a 2019 criminal defamation case filed against him for his alleged ‘Modi surname’ remark.
A case was registered against Rahul on April 13, 2019, by BJP MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi. He had complained about the remarks made by Rahul at a rally in Kolar, Karnataka during the Lok Sabha elections.
Rahul Gandhi had reportedly said during the rally, ‘All thieves, be it Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi or Narendra Modi, why they have Modi in their names.’
On March 24, a day after his conviction, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha. In a notification issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, it was said that Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified from March 23, 2023.
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