<p>A Surat court on Thursday, April 20, upheld 2-year jail term for Congress leader <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/sc-st-quota-should-be-proportional-to-their-population-rahul-gandhi-23281304" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Rahul Gandhi</strong></a> in a defamation case. The court dismissed Rahul Gandhi's plea for stay on conviction in defamation case.</p>
<p>Media reports say that Rahul Gandhi is set to move to Gujarat High Court tomorrow, April 21, in connection to the defamation case.</p>
<p>Earlier on On April 3, the Congress leader was granted bail by the Surat Sessions after he had filed an appeal following his conviction in the case.</p>
<p>Rahul Gandhi, a Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad, was disqualified after a lower court in Surat sentenced him to two years in jail on March 23 under sections 499 and 500 (defamation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in a case filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Purnesh Modi.</p>
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<p>The case was in coonection to a comment made by Rahul Gandhi taking the surname 'Modi' while addressing a campaign event ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. At a rally in Karnataka in April 2019, Rahul, in a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said, "How come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?".</p>
<p>Following his conviction, Rahul was disqualified as an MP on March 24, as per a Supreme Court ruling in 2013. Under the ruling, any MP or MLA is automatically disqualified if convicted and sentenced to two years or more.</p>
<p>Ever since Rahul Gandhi <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/sc-st-quota-should-be-proportional-to-their-population-rahul-gandhi-23281304" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>disqualification</strong></a>, there has been a political uproar across the country with leaders from both opposition and ruling partly indulging in war of words.</p><p>
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Media reports say that Rahul Gandhi is set to move to Gujarat High Court tomorrow, April 21, in connection to the defamation case

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