ADANI SAGA REACHES PARL FROM MARKET... All Oppn parties seek Parliament debate JPC on Adani stock rout, force adjournments in LS & RS

Moni Sharma

New Delhi: The Opposition parties on Thursday sought a debate in Parliament and a probe by a joint committee into the fraud-allegation-triggered rout in Adani group company stocks, forcing adjournment of proceedings in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in the pre-lunch session.

The Congress, Shiv Sena, the Left, AAP and other Oppn parties tried to raise in both Houses issue of allegations levelled by a US short seller against Adani group, subsequent mayhem on the company stocks but were disallowed by chair.

LS MPs rushed to the Well of House raising slogans, sought a probe into business practices of big giant. Whereas, 9 MPs including Kharge, Shiv Sena’s Priyanka Chaturvedi and AAP’s Sanjay, gave notices in RS under rule 267.

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L ok Sabha Speaker Om Birla asked members not to make unsubstantiated claims and said Question Hour was an important part of Parliamentary proceedings which should not be disrupted. As the slogan shouting continued, the Speaker adjourned the Lower House proceedings till 2 pm.

R ajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar rejected all the notices, saying they were not in order. This infuriated the opposition MPs who rose in their places to protest. Dhankhar called for order in House but MPs continued to raise their demands, it also included constitution of a JPC to probe entire fiasco.