The Congress leader who was disqualified from the Lower House in March 2023 was reinstated because the Wayanad MP.
Days after reinstating because the Member of Parliament, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was nominated to the parliamentary standing committee on Defence. Before being disqualified in March, Gandhi was a member of the parliamentary panel on defence.
Earlier on August 7, Lok Sabha Secretariat restored the membership of Rahul Gandhi after the Supreme Court on August 4 stayed his conviction within the ‘Modi’ surname comment case.
The Congress leader who was disqualified from the Lower House in March 2023 was reinstated because the Wayanad MP.
The Supreme Court, in an interim order on Friday, stayed Gandhi`s conviction within the felony defamation case over the `Modi surname` comment. The apex court docket issued discover to the Gujarat authorities in July on an enchantment of the Congress leader difficult the Gujarat High Court order.
The Gujarat High Court, had, in its order earlier, declined to keep his conviction within the felony defamation case during which Rahul was sentenced to two years in jail by the Surat court docket over the `Modi surname` comment.
After his conviction within the case, Gandhi was disqualified as MP from Kerala’s Wayanad on March 24.
According to a Lok Sabha bulletin, Congress MP Amar Singh too has been nominated to the committee. Newly elected Aam Aadmi Party member of Lok Sabha Sushil Kumar Rinku has been nominated to the committee on agriculture, animal husbandry and meals processing. Rinku had just lately received the Jalandhar Lok Sabha by-poll and is the only real AAP member within the Lower House of Parliament.
