{"id":213516,"date":"2023-03-24T00:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=213516"},"modified":"2023-03-24T00:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:00:29","slug":"aap-supports-gandhi-in-defamation-case-claims-conspiracy-against-non-bjp-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/aap-supports-gandhi-in-defamation-case-claims-conspiracy-against-non-bjp-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"AAP supports Gandhi in defamation case, claims &#8216;conspiracy&#8217; against non-BJP leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 23 Mar:<\/strong> The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday came out in support of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after he was sentenced to two years in jail in a defamation case, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleging that a conspiracy is being hatched to &#8220;eliminate&#8221; non-BJP leaders and parties by prosecuting them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A court in Gujarat&#8217;s Surat held Gandhi guilty of defamation for his 2019 &#8220;Modi surname&#8221; remarks. It also granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to allow him to appeal in a higher court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A conspiracy is being hatched to eliminate non-BJP leaders and parties by prosecuting them. We have differences with the Congress, but it is not right to implicate Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case like this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is the job of the public and the opposition to ask questions. We respect the court but disagree with the decision,&#8221; Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AAP Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha said that opposition forms the core of democracy and dissent should not be stifled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Respectfully disagree with court verdict against Rahul Gandhi. Opposition forms the core of democracy. Dissent should not be stifled. India has a strong tradition of critique. Attempt to reduce this to the viewpoint of one ideology, one party, one leader is unconstitutional and undemocratic,&#8221; he tweeted. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 23 Mar: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday came out in support of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after he was sentenced to two years in jail in a defamation case, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleging that a conspiracy is being hatched to &#8220;eliminate&#8221; non-BJP leaders and parties by prosecuting them. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}