{"id":53797,"date":"2023-03-25T20:08:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T11:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/25\/india-rahul-gandhi-vows-defend-democracy-expelled-parliament"},"modified":"2023-03-25T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T11:08:31","slug":"indias-rahul-gandhi-vows-to-defend-democracy-after-being-stripped-of-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53797","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Rahul Gandhi vows to \u2018defend democracy\u2019 after being stripped of seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top opposition figure expelled from parliament after being convicted of defamation over Modi remark<\/p>\n<p>The top Indian opposition figure Rahul Gandhi has said he will keep fighting for democracy after blaming his expulsion from parliament on his demands for an investigation into a key business ally of the prime minister, Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/24\/indian-opposition-leader-rahul-gandhi-expelled-from-parliament-defamation-conviction-modi\">stripped of his parliamentary seat<\/a> on Friday, a day after he was convicted of defamation in Modi\u2019s home state of Gujarat for a 2019 campaign-trail remark seen as an insult to the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/25\/india-rahul-gandhi-vows-defend-democracy-expelled-parliament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top opposition figure expelled from parliament after being convicted of defamation over Modi remarkThe top Indian opposition figure Rahul Gandhi has said he will keep fighting for democracy after blaming his expulsion from parliament on his demands for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"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":[62,433,54,1712,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-press-freedom","category-rahul-gandhi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53797","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\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53798,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53797\/revisions\/53798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}