Parliament stalemated over demands for Rahul's apology, JPC probe into Adani
The Statesman|March 20, 2023
Parliament resumed its Budget Session last week to clear Budgetary demands of Central Ministries and to approve the Finance Bill, 2023, but it was stalemated over other issues.
DEEPAK RAZDAN
Parliament stalemated over demands for Rahul's apology, JPC probe into Adani

If the first part of the Session saw GovernmentOpposition confrontation over the Hindenburg Research report on the Adani Group of Companies, the second part has already lost five of its 17 sittings over the Government’s insistence on an apology by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks in the UK on Indian democracy. Every time ruling BJP members in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha raised the issue of Mr Gandhi’s apology, the Opposition benches responded with shouts for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani group’s financial controversies. The result was the two Houses were adjourned after brief sittings in the morning and afternoon.

On Friday, the two Houses adjourned for next Monday after 15-20 minutes of sitting. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in the Lok Sabha and Leader of the House Piyush Goyal in the Rajya Sabha flagged the issue of Mr Gandhi’s speeches, and demanded that he apologise for his comments on Indian Parliament and democracy.

Quite unusually, members from the Treasury Benches shouted for Mr Gandhi’s apology, without caring for what the Opposition was shouting for.

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