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A meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee chaired by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held on the evening of March 18 rapidly degenerated into a war of words between Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and the BJP members over the formersremarks on the state of Indian Democracy in London made earlier this month...
BJP Rajya Sabha MP G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, according to sources, flagged the recent report by financial research group Hindenburg and anti-India comments made by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, both of which, he said, were part of a larger anti-India conspiracy...
BJPs Lok Sabha MP Anil Firojiya, without naming Mr. Gandhi, said that there are political leaders who try to score brownie points by talking about Indian democracy on a foreign land.. Mr. Gandhi was among the last members to speak..
Mr. Gandhi further clarified that his remarks were aimed at an individual who was named in the Hindenburg report and not against the government and that an individual industrialist does not stand for the entire government or the country.Even as he was speaking, according to an opposition MP, there were repeated interjections from the ruling party MPs, leading to a shouting match between the two sides...
The first week of the second part of the Budget Session was a washout, with the Treasury Benches insisting on an apology from Mr. Gandhi for his remarks while the Opposition was adamant about a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee into the State Bank of India (SBI)-Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) investments made in the Adani Group and the alleged stock manipulation by the industrialist..
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