'26 hours': Congress questions delay in reinstating Rahul Gandhi as MP
Rahul Gandhi's conviction in the Modi surname remark case was granted a stay order by the Supreme Court of India on Friday. The stay order qualifies to reinstate Rahul Gandhi's status as the Member of the Parliament as an MP of Wayanad. However, the procedure for the same has not taken to fruition casting shade on the fact if Rahul Gandhi will be able to enter the parliament premises on Monday, 7 August.
According to the Lok Sabha Secretariat, Rahul Gandhi is entitled to return to Parliament from Monday. However, the Lok Sabha secretariat has to issue a notice. “The notice will say that his suspension from the Lok Sabha has been removed following the Supreme court decision.
He can't come before the notification is issued", the Lok Sabha secretariat said. Jairam Ramesh took to microblogging site ‘X’, formerly known as Twitter to say flag a comparison in how much time it took the authorities to disqualify Rahul Gandhi as an MP and yet in the same amount of time, the Congress leader has not been reinstated yet. "26 hours after @RahulGandhi was "convicted" by the Sessions Court in Surat, the notification of his disqualification as MP was issued.
26 hours have passed since the Supreme Court stayed his wholly unjustified conviction. Why hasn’t his position as MP been restored yet?" Ramesh wrote on ‘X’. Notably, the No-Confidence motion that was filed by Congress leader from Assam Gaurav Gogoi against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government on the Manipur sexual assault, ethnic violence is due for discussion in the Lok Sabha from 8-10 August.
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