category Regional, amritsar, , tags Regional, amritsar, , DW BUREAU Amritsar The disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha does not bode well for democracy , Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said on Sunday while claiming that the speaker of the House acted in a haste over the matter. Even though the SAD was opposed to the policies of the Congress party as well as that of Rahul Gandhi, it felt that due time should have been given to him to appeal his disqualification, he said. Gandhi was on Thursday sentenced to two years in jail by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case over his why all thieves have Modi surname remark. A day later, he was disqualified from the Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction in the case. Badal claimed that the Lok Sabha speaker acted in a haste in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi and this does not bode well for democracy . The system should be allowed to do its job and disrupting it points to a dictatorial trend, he added. Raising the pitch against the BJP over Rahul Gandhi s disqualification from Lok Sabha, Congress leaders and workers held protests across the country on Sunday, with party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accusing the government of trying to silence a martyr s son for raising the voice of people. (editor dailyworld.in)