The Budget Session of Parliament has been adjourned till April 5th after proceedings in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were disrupted and adjourned till 2 pm on Monday. While the Upper House was adjourned as MPs from the Congress and other Opposition parties created a ruckus, demanding a Joint Parliamentary Probe into charges against the Adani Group, Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned after obituary references to sitting MP Girish Bapat and former MP Innocent who passed away recently.
The second leg of the Budget session, which began on March 13th, has so far not witnessed any significant business as the ruling and Opposition parties have been at loggerheads over various issues. It appears that there was disruption in the Indian Parliament during the proceedings, with Congress MPs dressed in black and TMC members wearing black face masks. Opposition MPs started shouting slogans as the Chairman, Jagdeep Dhankhar, called for the laying of official papers on the table of the House at the beginning of the day’s proceedings. The Chairman then adjourned the proceedings until 2 pm.
It is unclear what the slogans were about or what specific issue the opposition was protesting. It seems that the opposition MPs were protesting against the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha, and also targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi by shouting “Modi-Adani bhai-bhai.” They wore black, which is considered a mark of protest. It’s unclear from the given information what specifically led to Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification.
