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Judge calls conviction of opposition leader ‘just, proper and legal’ as lawyer vows to take case to supreme court

NEW DELHI: Backing Rahul Gandhi after the Gujarat high court on Friday rejected his petition seeking a stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his Modi surname remark, senior Congress leaders have, in immediate response, called his suspension from Parliament a “political conspiracy”.

The Supreme Court on May 12 sought replies of the West Bengal and Tamil Nadu Governments on a plea of the producers of The Kerala Story challenging the ban in the two States.

Welcoming the Supreme Court judgments on the Maharashtra political row as well as the one that defined the Delhi government’s legislative and executive powers, the Congress on May 11 described them as “seminal and path-breaking”.

The Congress said the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the State cannot escape responsibility for the violence and deaths in Manipur

A day after the Election Commission sought evidence from Karnataka Congress over its “corruption rate card” advertisements published in newspapers targeting the BJP ahead of the Assembly elections, the party on Sunday hit back accusing the EC of taking action in violation of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution…

A delegation of Congress leaders, including Abhishek Singhvi, Pawan Kumar Bansal and Mukul Wasnik, met the chief election commissioner.

At a press conference at the AICC headquarters, senior spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said that a public fund that gets donations to the tune of ₹5,000 crore should come under the ambit of RTI and show accountability.

The controversy surrounding Rahul Gandhi’s recent remarks against a reporter has not just pointed to a sense of distrust within the Congress against the media, but also a beat reporter bearing the brunt of the editorial slant of a section of the press.