Gandhis do not apologise: Rahul.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that he was not Veer Savarkar and will not apologise.

'I am a Gandhi and not Savarkar and Gandhis do not apologise,' he said at a press conference here a day after his expulsion from Parliament following his conviction in a defamation case. Rahul Gandhi said he had been disqualified from parliament because he has been asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi tough questions about his relationship with Gautam Adani, founder of the Adani conglomerate. Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party responded by saying Gandhi had been punished under the law for a defamatory comment he made in 2019 and it had nothing to do with the Adani issue.

Gandhi, a former president of India's main opposition Congress party who is still its main leader, lost his parliamentary seat on Friday, a day after a court in the western state of Gujarat convicted him in a defamation case and sentenced him...