The Maharashtra Congress on Friday said the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as Lok Sabha MP was "murder of democracy" and dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to investigate allegations against firms of billionaire Gautam Adani.

The Congress held press conferences in different parts of the state to condemn Gandhi's disqualification, after he was sentenced to two years in jail by a Gujarat court on March 23, and the silence of the Union government on Adani, whose firms have been accused of stock manipulation and accounting fraud by United States-based Hindenburg Research.