Rahul Gandhi's Congress colleagues, supporters and various leaders from other parties like TMC, Samajwadi Party, and AAP have come in support of the Congress leader after he was disqualified as Lok Sabha Member of Parliament on Friday.

The disqualification comes a day after a Surat district court convicted him in a four-year-old defamation case in which he had made a remark against PM Narendra Modi's surname.

It is noteworthy that it is for the first time an MP has been disqualified over criminal defamation case. It is one of the rare cases where someone has been convicted and sentenced two years’ imprisonment over a defamation case.

Usually compensation is sought in defamation case. Two years sentence in a defamation case will only open a floodgate.

His party-man Dr. AM Singhvi said “There is a provision created in law specifically called Section 202.  The section prevents without jurisdiction mischievous prosecution complaints in areas where no cause of action has arisen. Rahul Gandhi made a speech in Kolar and has no connection with Surat and Section 202 cannot be nullified”.

Singhvi questioned Lok Sabha’s decision to disqualify Rahul Gandhi. “Though the conviction is by a court in Rahul Gandhi’s case, the disqualification under Article 103 of the Constitution has to be by the President of India. And under Article 103, the President of India has to first disqualify Rahul Gandhi”.