{"id":53766,"date":"2023-03-24T21:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T12:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/24\/indian-opposition-leader-rahul-gandhi-expelled-from-parliament-defamation-conviction-modi"},"modified":"2023-03-24T21:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T12:45:21","slug":"indian-opposition-leader-expelled-from-parliament-after-defamation-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53766","title":{"rendered":"Indian opposition leader expelled from parliament after defamation conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Gandhi of Congress party had asked why \u2018all thieves have Modi as [their] common surname\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Indian opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, has been expelled from parliament 24 hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/rahul-gandhi-found-guilty-of-defaming-narendra-modi-india-prime-minister-remark-2019\">he was convicted of defamation<\/a> for a remark implying the country\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, was a criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Senior members of Gandhi\u2019s Congress party met on Friday morning to discuss the conviction and his two-year jail sentence when they received news of his expulsion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/24\/indian-opposition-leader-rahul-gandhi-expelled-from-parliament-defamation-conviction-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Gandhi of Congress party had asked why \u2018all thieves have Modi as [their] common surname\u2019The Indian opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, has been expelled from parliament 24 hours after he was convicted of defamation for a remark implying the country\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1712,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-rahul-gandhi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53767,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53766\/revisions\/53767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}