New Delhi: The Lok Sabha secretariat today restored the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s membership in the Lower House. The decision was taken after three days of the Supreme Court’s decision to stay Mr. Gandhi’s conviction in a criminal defamation case. Mr. Gandhi is a Lok Sabha member from Wayanad constituency in Kerala. He was disqualified from the Lok Sabha in March this year after a Surat court handed over maximum sentence of tyou years in a defamation case filed by Purnesh Modi, a BJP leader from Gujarat. Though Mr Gandhi approached the sessions court of Surat and Gujarat high court to stay his sentence, his plea was rejected and the congress leader was finally awarded stay by the Apex court and his membership was reinstated after three days of the verdict. Soon after Mr Gandhi’s Lok Sabha membership was restored, Mr Gandhi reached Parliament and offered floral tributes at Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament House complex.
