Agartala, March 27: Congress and CPI-M MLAs displayed placards in the Tripura Assembly on Monday protesting the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha. However, the opposition legislators did not disrupt the proceedings of the house.

Congress MLA Gopal Chandra Roy attended the house in black attire as a mark of protest against the disqualification of Gandhi from Parliament.

Tripura Pradesh Congress President Birajit Sinha, one of the three Congress MLAs, said that to protect democracy and protest against injustice, they are continuing their protest inside and outside the Assembly.

“Rahul Gandhi’s voice was suppressed by the BJP government and he was not allowed to speak in the Lok Sabha unethically before being disqualified. The people of this country would not accept the murder of the democracy in India,” Sinha, a former Tripura Minister, told the media.

Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha membership was terminated on March 24, a day after he was sentenced to two years imprisonment by a magistrate court in Surat district court in Gujarat in a criminal defamation case.

The defamation case was against him over his alleged ‘Modi surname’ remark in 2019 in Karnataka.