The congress leader who had been barred from the lower house in March 2023 was re-elected as the MP for Wayanad.
Digital Desk: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was nominated to the parliamentary standing committee on defence just days after being re-elected as a member of parliament.
Gandhi served on the parliamentary defence panel before being disqualified in March.
Rahul Gandhi's membership in the Lok Sabha was reinstated earlier on August 7 after the Supreme Court on August 4 delayed his conviction in the "Modi" surname remark case.
The congressman who had been barred from the lower house in March 2023 was re-elected as the MP for Wayanad.
Gandhi's conviction in the criminal defamation case involving the remark about the "Modi surname" was delayed by the Supreme Court on Friday in an interim ruling.
On an appeal from the Congress leader disputing the Gujarat High Court judgement, the Supreme Court gave notice to the Gujarat government in July.
Rahul was sentenced to two years in jail by the Surat court for making the statement about the "Modi surname" in the criminal defamation case in which the Gujarat High Court had earlier declined to stay his conviction.
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 member, 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 proposed for the committee on agriculture, animal husbandry, and food processing.
The sole AAP member in the Lower House of Parliament, Rinku just won the Jalandhar Lok Sabha byelection.
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