Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, August 17: Rahul Gandhi, a leader of the Congress, was selected for the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence just a few days after being reinstated as a Member of Parliament.
Gandhi served as a member of the parliamentary panel on defence before being disqualified in March.
Rahul Gandhi’s membership in the Lok Sabha was reinstated earlier on August 7 by the Lok Sabha Secretariat following the Supreme Court’s stay of his conviction in the “Modi” surname remark case on August 4.
The Congress leader who had been barred from the lower house in March 2023 was reinstated as the MP for Wayanad.
Gandhi’s conviction in the criminal defamation case involving the remark about the “Modi surname” was stayed by the Supreme Court on Friday in an interim ruling.
On an appeal from the Congress leader challenging the Gujarat High Court judgment, the Supreme Court gave notice to the Gujarat government in July.
In a previous ruling, the Gujarat High Court declined to stay Rahul’s conviction in the criminal defamation case in which the Surat court had sentenced him to two years in prison for making the statement about the “Modi surname.”
Gandhi lost his seat as a Member of Parliament for Kerala’s Wayanad on March 24 following his conviction in the case.
Amar Singh, a Congress MP, has also been named to the committee, according to a Lok Sabha bulletin.
Sushil Kumar Rinku, a recently elected Lok Sabha member from the Aam Aadmi Party, has been nominated for the committee on agriculture, animal husbandry and food processing.
Rinku, the lone AAP member in the Lower House of Parliament, just won the Jalandhar Lok Sabha byelection.
