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Rajya Sabha functions for 5 mins on day 4

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1 week ago

March 17, 2023

In a rare instance, Opposition members trooped into the Well of the Rajya Sabha even before the House proceedings began on Thursday morning and shouted slogans pressing for their demand for a JPC on the Adani-Hindenburg issue, leading to an adjournment within three minutes.Some Opposition members stationed themselves on both sides of the Well in the Upper House minutes before 11 am. Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar walked in 30 seconds after the marshal announced that the chairman was to enter. Opposition members began shouting slogans as Dhankhar gestured that they should go back to their seats. He did not occupy his chair and adjourned the House till 2 pm.

When the House assembled again at 2 pm, Opposition members were again waiting in the Well. Deputy Chairman Harivansh asked the protesting members to go back to their seats. As the slogan shouting continued and the treasury bench members were on their feet asking for an apology from Rahul Gandhi for his remarks in the UK recently on the state of democracy in India, Harivansh adjourned the House for the day.

The House proceedings for the whole day lasted only five minutes. No substantial business has been conducted for the last four days in the post-recess budget session.Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a brief interaction with his Cabinet colleagues defence minister Rajnath Singh, law minister Kiren Rijiju and I&B minister Anurag Thakur, among others at his Parliament House office.

Earlier in the day, before the Parliament proceedings began, Rijiju slammed Gandhi and Congress in a press interaction. “If Rahul Gandhi has sunk or destroyed Congress it is not a matter of interest for us. But if he tries to harm the country, then as a citizen we cannot sit silent. If the people of the country do not support Rahul Gandhi, it is not our or the Parliament’s fault.”

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‘Talk about Rajneeti, not Parineeti…’: AAP leader Raghav Chadha on dating rumours with Bollywood actress

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March 24, 2023

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Congress top brass meets after Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification

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March 24, 2023

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The Congress‘ top brass, including party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and former AICC chief Sonia Gandhi, met on Friday to deliberate on the party’s strategy going forward after Rahul Gandhi‘s disqualification from Lok Sabha. A meeting was already scheduled for Friday evening but after Rahul Gandhi’s conviction, top leaders assembled at 6 pm at the party headquarters with his disqualification being top of the agenda. Besides Kharge and Sonia Gandhi, Congress general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, K C Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Rajiv Shukla and Tariq Anwar, senior leaders P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik, Salman Khurshid and Pawan Kumar Bansal, among others, were also present at the meeting.

Sources said Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification and party’s strategy and plans for agitations were top of the agenda at the meeting.

Rahul Gandhi was on Friday disqualified from Lok Sabha following his conviction by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case, an action the party termed an attempt to “silence” his voice as it vowed to fight the battle legally and politically.

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Under PM Modi’s leadership, attempt is being made to destroy country: Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi Assembly

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March 24, 2023

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday and said under his leadership, an attempt is being made to destroy the country. In a speech in the Delhi Assembly, he also accused Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena of obstructing the work of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government. “I want to tell BJP people that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, an attempt is being made to destroy the country. Those who want to destroy the country should be in BJP and those who want to save the country should leave BJP,” he said.

There was an uproar in the Assembly when Kejriwal spoke about the prime minister.

Referring to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, Kejriwal targeted the central government and said “they are scared”. Gandhi was disqualification from the Lok Sabha upon his conviction and sentencing in a criminal defamation case.

Kejriwal asked LG Saxena to work together with the government for the development of Delhi.

“I want to tell LG sahab, ‘You have come from Gujarat. You are our guest’. I don’t think he would be knowing even the names of Delhi roads. But we don’t want fights. We want to work together. What will future generations say? They were fighting. We have to take sewer connections to every household, buy new buses, improve traffic situation…let’s do it together.

“We will work with you. It is not India-Pakistan war. When CM and LG start working together, it will actually be a double engine government,” he said.

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