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Budget session: Lok Sabha adjourned till 2 pm amid BJP’s uproar over Rahul Gandhi’s UK remarks
BJP MP’s, Tuesday, created a commotion in the Lok Sabha demanding an apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks in the United Kingdom following which the proceeding of the lower house have been adjourned till 2 pm.

BJP MP’s, Tuesday, created a commotion in the Lok Sabha demanding an apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks in the United Kingdom following which the proceeding of the lower house have been adjourned till 2 pm.
The second leg of the budget session—which will continue till April 6—was kicked off on Monday amid commotion with BJP leaders demanding an apology from Congress scion Rahul Gandhi for his democracy comments in London.
On Monday, ruckus erupted in the Lok Sabha as BJP leaders asked the Wayanad MP to apologize for his comments made during his speech in London leading to the Opposition storming the well of the House to protest.
In similar fashion, as the Lok Sabha met for the day, Speaker Om Birla urged members to let the House function and took up the Question Hour. Birla asked Congress members, who were on their feet, to maintain the decorum of the House and not show placards, urging them to let the House function.
However, Congress members continued their protest following which the speaker adjourned the House till 2 pm.
Speaking in London recently, Rahul Gandhi had alleged that the structures of Indian democracy are under brutal attack and there is a full-scale assault on the institutions of the country.
Demanding an apology from Gandhi for his remarks, the ruling BJP charged that the Congress leader has tried to defame India.
Lok Sabha proceedings were disrupted on Monday as well as the BJP-Congress slugfest escalated over Gandhi’s remark with the Government seeking an apology while the opposition benches demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani-Hindenburg issue.
Meanwhile, Congress President and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday slammed the BJP for demanding an apology from Gandhi for his remarks. Addressing the media after the commotion in the Parliament, Kharge claimed that there’s no place for democracy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule and rule is law is absent while central agencies are being “misused.”
Kharge accused the ruling BJP of running the country “like a dictatorship” where dissent is muzzled, while they trumpet about patriotism and respect… “and then they talk about democracy.”
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Salman Khurshid confident on Rahul Gandhi’s return to Parliament, says he will be back soon
Congress leader Salman Khurshid said that if Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification marks the beginning of a corporation, it was worth paying the price.

Senior Congress leader and former Law Minister Salman Khurshid spoke to the media on Tuesday and showed confidence in Rahul Gandhi’s return to Parliament. Khurshid statements come in the backdrop of vacating notice served to the disqualified Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Khurshid, while speaking to the media, said that he is confident that Rahul Gandhi will return to the parliament very quickly through the legal process. The former Law Minister in an interview with the PTI also said that Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification begat Opposition to unity and termed it to be a good point to begin on.
He also said that if Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification marks the beginning of a corporation, it was worth paying the price.
Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha on March 24 subsequently after the Congress leader was convicted by a Gujarat Court in a defamation case. Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification was condemned and termed as a black day for democracy by many within and across party lines.
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The most recent development in the case was that the senior Congress leader was served a notice to vacate his allotted bungalow on March 27th. After being served the notice to vacate, Gandhi replied and agreed to abide by the notice.
However, the notice to vacate was slammed by various Congress leaders as Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge came forward and said that Rahul Gandhi can go live with his mother or he can also approach him and he will vacate one for him.
Kharge in his statement also slammed and condemns the Centre and accused the government of trying to intimidate and humiliate the Opposition. He also highlighted that they had to manage without a house for three to four months. He further talked about his bungalow and said that he got it after six months.
He further accused the BJP of doing such things to humiliate others and condemned the attitude of the BJP.
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BJP’s OBC MPs protest in Parliament against Rahul Gandhi’s Modi surname remark, demand apology
BJP MP’s belonging to Other Backward Castes (OBC) on Tuesday staged a protest in front of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue inside Parliament premises over the Modi surname remark by Rahul Gandhi and demanded an apology from the Congress scion over the contentious comment.

BJP MP’s belonging to Other Backward Castes (OBC) on Tuesday staged a protest in front of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue inside Parliament premises over the Modi surname remark by Rahul Gandhi and demanded an apology from the Congress scion over the contentious comment.
On Friday last, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha, day after a Surat court convicted him in a 2019 defamation case and sentenced him to a two-year jail term.
The disqualification which will prevent 52-year-old Gandhi, a four-time MP, from contesting elections for eight years unless a higher court stays the conviction, has kicked up a political storm with the Congress staging a countrywide satyagraha on Sunday to protest the decision.
Meanwhile, the BJP isn’t relenting from its demand of an apology from the Gandhi scion for his Modi surname remark.
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Earlier in the day, the saffron party targeted Rahul Gandhi against, saying that the former Wayanad MP “pretending not to be a coward” after previously apologising to the Supreme Court for the ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’ jibe against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019.
Talking to newsmen at a presser, Union Minister Smriti Irani today said that Gandhi was convicted not for “abusing” an individual but the entire OBC community and “pretends not be a coward” when he already apologized to the Supreme Court in 2019 for his remarks against PM Modi.
Irani said that in his attempt to “insult” PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi also “insulted the entire OBC community and yet does not have the humility to “beg forgiveness” from them (OBC) which shows the “political arrogance” of the Gandhi family.
The BJP and the Congress have been involved in a political slugfest since a court in Gujarat’s Surat city convicted its Rahul Gandhi in a 2019 criminal defamation case and sentenced him to a two-year prison term, which led to his disqualification from Lok Sabha.
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Opposition’s new resolution after Uddhav Thackeray absence at Congress-hosted strategy meet, leaders to refrain from speaking on sensitive matters such as Savarkar
The absence at the Opposition meet by Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray comes after he registered his dissent against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statement over VD Savarkar.

On Monday evening, Opposition party leaders met for dinner at Opposition leader and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence. The dinner meet was attended by the Congress and 17 other party leaders.
However, at the strategy meet at Kharge’s house, Shiv Sena (UBT)’s chief Uddhav Thackeray’s absence came as a big blow to the opposition unity. As per the reports, the absence of Thackeray was taken into account and the Opposition leaders resolved to refrain from commenting on sensitive topics such as VD Savarkar.
As per the reports, Congress signaled that the party will take into consideration the feelings of like-minded parties, in a bid to pacify the row over VD Savarkar statements. It was also reported that senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were also present at the meeting.
The absence at the Opposition meet by Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray comes after he registered his dissent against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statement over VD Savarkar rwhich ruffled the feathers of the dispensation, but the damage also spilled over to Shiv Sena (UBT).
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief spoke to the media and said that he idolises the Hindutva Ideologue VD Savarkar and further warned Rahul Gandhi against using Savarkar’s name in a bad light.
Thackeray further said that Savarkar suffered through unimaginable torture in Andaman cellular jail for 14 years and further said that the accounts of his torture are not tactile and can only be read.
Thackeray also advised Rahul Gandhi that the alliance of the Uddhav faction, Congress, and NCP was made to protect democracy. He further stressed that the alliance needs to work unitedly.
The strategy meet hosted by the Congress chief was attended by leaders of DMK, Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal-United, Telangana’s ruling Bharat Raksha Samithi, RS, CPM, CPI, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, MDMK, KC, TMC, RSP, RJD, J&K NC, IUML, VCK, SP, JMM.
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