Patna: Hours after Congress's Rahul Gandhi was reinstated as Wayanad MP by the Lok Sabha secretariat after the Supreme Court's relief in the 2019 Modi surname defamation case, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said that they will together contest elections in 2024 and will win. 

"I congratulated him (Rahul Gandhi) for this. I met him when he came to meet Lalu Yadav. We will together contest the elections and will win it. And as I said earlier also 'Jo ladega wo jitega, jo darega wo marega”, Tejashwi Yadav said. 

The Lok Sabha secretariat issued a notification announcing that his disqualification has been revoked and his membership restored. 

He further said that the leaders of the opposition are getting stronger and mobilized. 

“Leaders of the opposition are getting stronger and getting mobilized. We are not opposing Modi ji or Amit Shah, but the way the history of the country changed after BJP started to rule, and if a person speaks the truth then the way action is being taken on them, irrespective of any class, any profession, it seems that there is undeclared emergency”, he added. 

Congress's Rahul Gandhi was reinstated as Wayanad MP by the Lok Sabha secretariat after the Supreme Court's relief in the 2019 Modi surname defamation case. The Lok Sabha secretariat issued a notification announcing that his disqualification has been revoked and his membership restored.

The apex court on Friday issued notices to the Gujarat government and the complainant in July on an appeal of the Congress leader challenging the Gujarat High Court order. 

The Gujarat High Court, had, in its order earlier, declined to stay his conviction in the criminal defamation case in which Rahul was sentenced to two years in jail by the Surat court over the 'Modi surname' remark. 

After his conviction in the case, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as MP from Kerala’s Wayanad constituency on March 24.