Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday castigated the ruling BJP-led central government and said that attacks were being made on the democracy in India. He said the examples of it keep manifesting from time to time.

Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday a day after a Gujarat court convicted him in a 2019 defamation case and sentenced him to two years in prison. The Lok Sabha notification came on a day when Opposition leaders led by the Congress had held a protest rally against Gandhi’s conviction, marching to Rashtrapati Bhavan with posters saying, ‘Democracy is in Danger’.