It is known that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has again entered the Lok Sabha after the ban on his MP membership was lifted. Within a week of his renewal of membership, he was nominated to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence. The Lok Sabha Secretariat has released a bulletin to this effect.
It is noteworthy that he was in the same committee even before he resigned from the post of MP.
Before being disqualified in March, Rahul Gandhi was a member of the parliamentary panel on defence.
According to the Lok Sabha bulletin, Congress MP Amar Singh has also been nominated to the committee.
Aam Aadmi Party’s newly elected Lok Sabha member Sushil Kumar Rinku has been nominated to the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Processing. Rinku recently won the Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll and is the only AAP member in the lower house of parliament.
NCP’s Faizal PP Mohammed, whose Lok Sabha membership was restored in March, has been nominated to the Committee on Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
On 7 August, Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha membership was restored, days after the Supreme Court stayed her sentence in a 2019 defamation case over her “Modi surname” remark.
Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as a Lok Sabha member on 24 March, with effect from 23 March, after a Gujarat court convicted him in the case and sentenced him to two years in jail.