Lok Sabha adjourned till Nov 27 after Opposition uproar
By : Deccan Chronicle
Update: 2024-11-25 07:16 GMT
New Delhi: The floor leaders of the Opposition I.N.D.I.A. bloc met on Monday ahead of the start of Parliament’s Winter Session and decided to raise the issue of alleged corruption in the Adani Group and demand a JPC on the matter. The floor leaders met at the Parliament House office of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. Several Opposition MPs, including Kharge, had given adjournment notices in both Houses of Parliament on the issue.
“As the Parliament session begins, the first step the government should take is to have a detailed discussion on the Adani saga which has the potential of tarnishing India’s image on the global stage. This is what the I.N.D.I.A. bloc parties demand today, for the hard-earned investments of crores of retail investors are at stake,” Kharge said in a post in X after the meet. Several leaders, including those of the Congress, have already sought a JPC into the issues surrounding the Adani Group.
Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned as leaders from several Opposition parties gave adjournment notices for discussion on the issue of the indictment of Adani Group
Founder-chairman Gautam Adani and others in a US court on bribery charges. The Chair in both Houses refused permission for a debate and adjourned proceedings for the day. Kharge got up to speak on the Adani issue in the Rajya Sabha, but the Chairman did not allow the issue to be raised.
“Yesterday, at the all-party meeting, the whole Opposition had proposed to take up a discussion on the bribery allegations against the Adani Group. The charge is on Adani, but the BJP is feeling the pain,” Opposition deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha Pramod Tiwari said.
Congress Lok Sabha MP K.C. Venugopal said: “They are very much scared of discussing the Adani issue. They are not even ready to hear one word from the Opposition on the issue.” He added: “Within a second, they adjourned the House. They are scared of this issue being raised.” He said that the Opposition will continue its agitation.
Those who attended the meeting included Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Nasir Hussain and Manickam Tagore of the Congress, as well as Samajwadi Party’s Ramji Lal Suman, DMK’s T.R. Baalu, Tiruchi Siva and Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, and NCP-SP’s Supriya Sule, AAP leader Raghav Chadha, CPM leader K. Radhakrishnan, Sandosh Kumar of the CPI leader and IUML leader E. T. Mohammed Basheer.
SP’s N.K. Premachandran, Kerala Congress leader K. Francis George, RJD’s Abhay Kumar Sinha and Dr Faiyaz Ahmad, MDMK’s Vaiko, CPI(ML)(L) leader Raja Ram Singh and BAP’s Rajkumar Roat were also present at the meeting.