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Opposition leader was found guilty last month, given suspended jail term and barred from parliament
The Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has lodged an appeal against his conviction for defamation, aiming to overturn a judgment that resulted in his expulsion from parliament a year before a general election is due.
Gandhi, 52, was found guilty of defamation last month in a case brought by a state politician from the prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) over comments Gandhi made in a 2019 speech that were deemed to be insulting to the prime minister and other people surnamed Modi.
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