Parl adjourned amid ruckus by Oppn

Oppositions demanded JPC to probe Adani issue, & raised slogans in support of their demand

Budget Session

New Delhi (ANI):

Both Houses of the Parliament were adjourned within minutes of their commencement on Wednesday at 11 am to meet again later in the day.

Like-minded Opposition Party leaders held a meeting in the chamber of the Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge before the commencement of the Houses.

TMC MPs staged a protest against the Centre at the Ambedkar statue in the Parliament seeking PM Narendra Modi’s reply on the Adani row among other issues.

Congress has been demanding the constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee over the Adani Group issue and has also been leading the charge of the protest against Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification as MP from Lok Sabha.

Meanwhile, Congress and Opposition parties are contemplating moving a no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla next week on the ground that opposition members are not being allowed to speak, the sources said.

New Delhi (Agencies): The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 was sent to a select committee, amid strong protest from the Opposition, especially senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, who heads the Standing Committee on Science, Technology, Environment and Forest. He called it “yet another subversion of Parliament”, accusing the government of deliberately bypassing the parliamentary panel on the subject. In the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav moved a motion to nominate the members to the joint select committee instituted to look at the Bill.