EXPELLED
Rahul Gandhi
Opposition Leader
Rahul Gandhi, the de facto leader of India’s main opposition party, was expelled from Parliament after being criminally convicted of defamation on March 23.
Gandhi’s question in a 2019 speech—“Why do all thieves have Modi as their surname?”—brought a two-year prison sentence from a judge in Gujarat, and more questions about the trend toward authoritarianism in the world’s largest democracy under Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister.
“These are flimsy and cooked-up charges,” Praveen Chakravarty,
