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Politics

Rahul Gandhi, India’s main opposition leader, reinstated to parliament

Rahul Gandhi during a news conference in New Delhi last week [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

India’s parliament has reinstated opposition Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi as a member after the Supreme Court suspended his conviction for defamation, the government said in a notice.

Gandhi’s suspension “has ceased to operate subject to further judicial pronouncements,” Utpal Kumar Singh, secretary-general of the lower parliament house said in a statement on Monday.

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