Lok Sabha Adjourned for the Day Following Uproar Over Rahul Gandhi’s Remarks and Adani-Hindenburg Issue

New Delhi: Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Monday amid an uproar over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s democracy remarks in the UK, with the government demanding an apology from him.

As the House reconvened at 2 pm, BJP MPs and those from the treasury benches raised slogans seeking an apology from Gandhi over his remarks. The Opposition MPs hit back, shouting slogans demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani-Hindenburg issue.

Papers and standing committee reports were tabled amid constant sloganeering from both sides and after that several MPs rushed to the Well of the House.

With MPs not heeding to repeated requests by Rajendra Agrawal, who was in the Chair, to let the House function, he adjourned the House for the day.

Earlier in the day, after obituary references in the House, Defence Minister and Deputy Leader of the Lok Sabha Rajnath Singh stood up, and charged that Gandhi has tried to defame India in London through his remarks on Indian democracy.

Gandhi had recently alleged in London that the structures of Indian democracy are under brutal attack and there is a full-scale assault on the institutions of the country.

Singh appealed to Speaker Om Birla that the House should condemn Gandhi’s remarks and the Congress leader should be directed to tender an apology.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi asked where was democracy when fundamental rights were “trampled” during the Emergency and where was democracy when an ordinance, duly approved by the Union Cabinet, was torn (by Rahul Gandhi during the UPA government).