Parliament Budget Session updates | Ruckus over Adani row continues, both Houses adjourned for the day

Chair Dr. Kirit Solanki adjourned the Lower House proceedings till 11 a.m. on Tuesday as Opposition members continued raising slogans over the Adani issue. Before this, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi requested sloganeering Opposition MPs to take their seats and begin the discussion of thanks on President Droupadi Murmu’s speech on the first day of the Budget session.

Proceedings have resumed in the Lower House. As members lay papers on the table corresponding to the list of the day’s business, Opposition parliamentarians are raising slogans demanding an enquiry by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the Adani Group issue.

Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day over Opposition’s motion to discuss Adani “stock scam”. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar expressed concern over the inability to take up listed business by the House. Monday’s list of business included a discussion on the motion to thank President Droupadi Murmu for her address to the joint session of Parliament.

The House will reconvene on February 7 at 11 a.m.

The Opposition parties have alleged that the meltdown in Adani Group shares is a scam that involves common people’s money, as public sector LIC and SBI have invested in them. Read more

The House is not being allowed to run and this is an outrage of rules and expectations, says Chairman Dhankhar.

Opposition members are seeking a discussion on the Hindenburg Report and Adani stock rout, but the same has been repeatedly disallowed so far.

“I have repeatedly indicated the stand, and that is carefully thought out,” Mr. Dhankhar says, justifying his decision. “The entire nation is looking at us,” he adds, to which Opposition members respond, “Absolutely, yes.”

Speaker Om Birla adjourned the Lower House following slogannering and protests by Opposition members as they persisted with their demand for a disccusion and inquiry into the Adani issue.

Earlier in the day, a united Opposition decided to corner the government on the Adani issue in Parliament. Sources told news agency ANI that leaders of 16 parties decided to ask for an adjournment motion in both Houses and insist on a discussion on the Adani issue. Leaders from the Congress, DMK, NCP, BRS, JD(U), SP, CPM, CPI, Kerala Cong (Jose Mani), JMM, RLD, RSP, AAP, IUML, RJD and Shiv Sena held a meeting in LoP Mallikarjun Kharge’s chambers on Monday morning.

As the proceedings resumed in the Lok Sabha on Monday morning, Opposition members resorted to sloganeering against the Centre, demanding the Speaker to allow a discussion on the Adani row.

Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar pays respect to former member of the House Abdul Samad Siddiqui, who died in November 2022. Parliamentarians join in and observe a minute of silence.

Proceedings begin with members laying papers on the Table.

Several members of opposition parties staged a protest on Monday at the Gandhi statue in Parliament to raise their demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) or Supreme Court-monitored probe into the Adani case.

1. Papers are to be laid on the table of the House following Question Hour.
2. Matters under Rule 377
3. Chandra Prakash Joshi to move the motion of thanks on the President’s address.

Congress MP Manish Tewari on Monday gave an Adjournment Motion notice in the Lok Sabha to have a detailed discussion on the border situation with China.

In his notice to the Lok Sabha Secretary General, Manish Tewari urged the House to suspend Zero hour and other businesses of the day for having a detailed discussion on the border situation with China.

“Since April 2020, China has engaged in what can only be described as a steady land grab. Till 16 January 2023, seventeen rounds of Commander level talks have taken place between India and China with little success. All the while China continues to build significant infrastructure, including bridges, roads and accommodation for its troops. China is attempting to unilaterally change the status quo,” Mr. Tewari said in the notice.