The stay on his conviction will allow Rahul Gandhi to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The 53-year-old former Congress President is also set to make his return to the Lok Sabha.
The Cong leader, however, expressed sadness that the Lok Sabha secretariat is not reinstating Rahul Gandhi with the same speed and alacrity with which it had disqualified him from the House in March following his conviction by a Surat court.
“The NCT Bill, if passed, would be struck down as unconstitutional. No government, whether there were different governments in the NCT and at Centre or same party in both places. ever thought of such pernicious measures against the people of Delhi," says Cong national spokesperson
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, on Friday, welcomed the Supreme Court order on Rahul Gandhi's conviction in the 2019 'Modi' surname defamation case, saying that "justice has been delivered".
The Supreme Court today stayed the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the 2019 criminal defamation case against him over his 'Modi surname' remark.