Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was nominated to the parliamentary standing committee on defense on Wednesday, only days after his Lok Sabha membership was restored. According to a Lok Sabha bulletin, Congress MP Amar Singh has also been nominated to the committee.
Sushil Kumar Rinku, a newly elected Lok Sabha member from the Aam Aadmi Party, has been appointed to the Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Food Processing Committee. Rinku just won a Lok Sabha byelection in Jalandhar and is the only AAP member in the Lower House of Parliament. Faizal P P Mohammed of the National Congress Party, whose Lok Sabha seat was restored in March, has been appointed to the committee on consumer affairs, food, and public distribution.
Gandhi was a parliamentary panel on Defense member before being disqualified in March. Gandhi’s Lok Sabha membership was reinstated on August 7, just days after the Supreme Court suspended his conviction in a 2019 defamation lawsuit over his “Modi surname” statements.
Gandhi was disqualified as a Lok Sabha member on March 24, with effect from March 23, after being convicted in the case and sentenced to two years in prison by a Gujarat court. A sentence of two years or more automatically disqualifies a legislator. In the Lok Sabha, he represents Wayanad.
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