An Agra court on Saturday sentenced Katheria a former Union minister, to two years in jail and also fined him Rs 50,000 for thrashing staffers of Torrent Power Limited in 2011.
He Ram Shankar Katheria should be disqualified. The law is equal for everyone. Now the Supreme Court decision has also come in the case of Rahul Gandhi. There is a big difference between what he (Katheria) did and what Rahul Gandhi is accused of,” Nath told PTI.
It will now be seen if Katheria’s (LS) membership is revoked or not. Let’s see how impartially the Lok Sabha Speaker works,” Singh had said. Gandhi was disqualified as LS MP on March 24 after the metropolitan court in Surat in Gujarat sentenced him to two years in jail in the case a day earlier.
He served as the Union Minister of State, at the Ministry of Human Resource Development from November 2014 to July 2016. He has also served as the chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes.
“It will now be seen if Katheria’s (LS) membership is revoked or not. Let’s see how impartially the Lok Sabha Speaker works,” Singh had said.
Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath told PTI on Sunday, “He (Ram Shankar Katheria) should be disqualified. The law is equal for everyone. Now the Supreme Court decision has also come in the case of Rahul Gandhi. There is a big difference between what he (Katheria) did and what Rahul Gandhi is accused of.”
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