Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 9
Rahul Gandhi joined his MP colleagues in the Lok Sabha today to sloganeer over alleged destabilisation of the Congress government in Karnataka moments before the party staged a walk out from the House.
This was when the government through Defence Minister Rajnath Singh again reiterated that the BJP had no role in the Karnataka crisis and the resignations were a result of the call given by Gandhi himself.
“What is happening in Karnataka is a result of the problem with the Congress Party’s own house. Instead of putting their own house in order these people are disrupting the Lower House. This cannot be justified,” Singh said after LS Speaker Om Birla, after initial resistance, allowed Congress leader in the House Adhir Ranjan Choudhry to raise the matter of Karnataka.
Ealier, the Speaker rejected adjournment notices of Congress leaders, who had raised the Karnataka issue in Zero Hour yesterday. The government contended that the same matter cannot be raised twice under House rules.
After Chowdhry spoke, the Congress MPs walked out in protest of what they called was “BJP’s politics of poaching.” Before the walkout, the LS witnessed sloganeering when Birla denied adjournments notices of the Congress.
Led by the Congress’ Kerala brigade, MPs stormed the well shouting “stop politics of conspiracy”; “Modi government shame shame”; “We want justice”.
Rahul Gandhi, who recently resigned as the Congress chief, did not enter the well and kept sitting with mother and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi. He, however, raised slogans from the seat, especially when his colleagues shouted “we want justice.”
After the Speaker relented and allowed Adhir Ranjan Chowdhry to speak briefly, Gandhi was heard telling his retreating forces, “Well done, good.”
Gets summons in Defamation case
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A court here issued fresh summons to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, directing him to appear on August 9 in a criminal defamation suit filed against him by a local BJP leader for allegedly calling Union Home Minister Amit Shah a ‘murder accused’
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Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate DS Dabhi re-issued the summons after the one issued on May 1, which was to be served through Lok Sabha Speaker as Gandhi is a Member of Parliament, was returned
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Speaker returned the summons, saying he had no locus standi in the matter, complainant’s lawyer Prakash Patel said
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