New Delhi: The Congress Friday known as for parliamentary privilege proceedings towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “defamatory” feedback towards “the Nehru household”, significantly Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. This occurred through the couple of minutes Parliament functioned earlier than each homes have been adjourned until 20 March.
Whereas serving the discover for privilege proceedings within the Rajya Sabha, MP and Congress common secretary Okay.C. Venugopal cited the PM’s speech within the Home on 9 February through the Finances session, when he requested why not one of the Gandhis had saved “Nehru” as their surname.
“The above talked about remarks, prima facie made in a mocking method, are usually not solely disgraceful but additionally insulting and defamatory vis-à-vis the Nehru household, significantly Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Shri. Rahul Gandhi, who’re the members of the Lok Sabha,” Venugopal’s discover to the Rajya Sabha chairman stated.
He cited two authorities — Follow and Process of Parliament by M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, and Erskine Could’s Parliamentary Follow — to make his case.
“On the outset, I want to say that the very suggestion by the prime minister why they didn’t take Nehru because the surname is preposterous by its very nature. The prime minister on that day knew very effectively that the surname of father just isn’t taken by daughter,” Venugopal stated, including that the assertion confirmed that the PM “intentionally mocked” the Gandhis.
He additional alleged that the tone and tenor of the comment have been derogatory in nature.
Each homes of parliament have been disrupted for the reason that second half of the Finances session started Monday, with each the ruling BJP and the opposition on the offensive. The BJP has been demanding that Rahul Gandhi apologise for feedback he made within the UK earlier this month about Indian democracy being beneath “brutal assault”. The Congress, in the meantime, has been urgent for the formation of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to research allegations of economic fraud towards the Adani group.
Gandhi was in Parliament Thursday in what was his first public look after his go to to the UK. In a press convention afterwards, he stated he had requested the Speaker of the Lok Sabha to permit him time to talk within the Home since 4 ministers had levelled allegations towards him in Parliament. The Congress sloganeered within the Lok Sabha demanding that Gandhi be allowed to talk, and the proceedings have been disrupted thereafter.
(Edited by Smriti Sinha)
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