With Govt, Oppn adamant over Adani row and Rahul comment, fate of Budget Session uncertain

However, amid the chaos, the Jammu and Kashmir Appropriation Bill, 2023, was passed in the Lok Sabha.

On Tuesday, the BJP had decided to run Question Hour if the Opposition remained in their seats and ask for a discussion. “We were told not to get up or raise slogans if the Opposition does not come to the well of the House,” said a senior BJP MP.

However, when the House met Congress and DMK MPs rushed to the well of the Lok Sabha demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the Adani Group row.

“Both sides are stuck at their hard positions. We cannot now go back in our demand for an apology,” said the party leader.

The Congress also has reiterated there is no going back on their demands for a JPC into the Adani issue and that Rahul Gandhi would not apologise for his remark in the UK.

Meanwhile, the BJP on Tuesday intensified its attack on Gandhi outside Parliament, with party spokesperson Sambit Patra terming the Congress leader as a betrayer. “He is the present-day Mir Jafar of Indian polity. He insulted the country and asked the foreign power to intervene in the country,” Patra said at a press conference.

In a high-level meeting on Tuesday morning, the BJP leadership started discussing the strategy to forward to pass the Budget, sources said.