“I thank Lok Sabha speaker for not delaying restoration of Rahul Gandhi’s membership…”: Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav

New Delhi [India], August 7 (ANI): Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav on Monday congratulated Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for the restoration of his Lok Sabha membership from Wayanad and thanked Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for not delaying the process of reinstating him. 

While speaking to ANI, Dimple Yadav said,” I want to congratulate Rahul Gandhi for his restoration of Lok Sabha membership. I want to thank the Lok Sabha speaker for not delaying the process of his membership restoration.” 

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Kharge welcomed the move by the Lok Sabha secretariat and said that it brings relief to the people of India.

“The decision to reinstate Rahul Gandhi as an MP is a welcome step. It brings relief to the people of India, and especially to Wayanad. Whatever time is left of their tenure, the BJP and Modi government should utilise that by concentrating on actual governance rather than denigrating Democracy by targeting opposition leaders,” Kharge tweeted.

On the restoration of Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha membership, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi says, “Speaker took the decision today. We followed the legal process, and immediately after receiving the Supreme Court’s order, we restored it.”

The Supreme Court, in an interim order on Friday, stayed Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in the criminal defamation case over the ‘Modi surname’ remark.

The apex court issued notices to the Gujarat government and the complainant in July on an appeal of the Congress leader challenging the Gujarat High Court order.

The Gujarat High Court, had, in its order earlier, declined to stay his conviction in the criminal defamation case in which Rahul was sentenced to two years in jail by the Surat court over the ‘Modi surname’ remark.

After his conviction in the case, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as MP from Kerala’s Wayanad on March 24.