Rahul Gandhi to visit Wayanad on August 12-13

Rahul Gandhi will visit his Lok Sabha constituency in Wayanad, Kerala, from August 12 to August 13, according to Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal. This will be his first visit since he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha on Monday.

In this regard, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal took to Twitter and said,” On 12-13 August,Rahul Gandhi ji will be in his constituency, Wayanad! The people of Wayanad are elated that democracy has won and their voice has returned to Parliament! Rahul ji is not just an MP but a member of their family!”

Earlier, the Lok Sabha Secretariat restored Rahul Gandhi’s membership on Monday, after the Supreme Court on August 4 stayed his conviction in the ‘Modi’ surname insult case.

The Wayanad MP was reinstated after the Congress leader was disqualified from the Lower House in March 2023. In an interim order issued on Friday, the Supreme Court delayed Gandhi’s conviction in the criminal defamation case stemming from the ‘Modi surname’ statement.

In July, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the Gujarat government in response to the Congress leader’s appeal of the Gujarat High Court judgment.

In an earlier order, the Gujarat High Court declined to stay Rahul’s conviction in the criminal defamation case in which he was sentenced to two years in prison by the Surat court for the ‘Modi surname’ statement. Gandhi was disqualified as MP from Kerala’s Wayanad on March 24 following his conviction in the case.