The eviction notice from the Lok Sabha housing panel came two days after Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from parliament.
Congress’s Rahul Gandhi has been asked to vacate his Tughlaq Lane bungalow, which he has been occupying since 2005. The eviction notice from the Lok Sabha housing panel came two days after his disqualification from parliament following the two-year jail term handed to him by a Gujarat court in a defamation case.
Mr Gandhi’s team said they have not received the notice, which came amid Congress assertions that he would file an appeal against the Gujarat court’s judgment. He has been given 30 days to file an appeal.
“This was expected of the BJP because the BJP is out on a witch hunt,” said Congress MP and its national spokesperson Dr Naseer Hussain. “They use all kinds of tactics to silence voices of dissent. They have thrown one of our important leaders out of parliament by devious means and this is nothing new,” he told.