Monsoon session: BJP raises Robert Vadra and placard vs placard

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Vadra had posted: “Parliament begins and so do their petty diversionary political tactics… People of India are not fooled. Regret to see India led by such so-called leaders !!

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The BJP’s placards included “Ulta chor kotwal ko daante, kisano ki zameen damaad ko baante (Like a thief rebuking cops, farmers’ land is given to the son-in-law)” and “C for corruption, C for Congress”. The Congress had begun this Wednesday, targeting “Bade Modi”, “Chhote Modi” and “56 inch”. Rahul Gandhi continued to wear a black band on his right arm.

After the first adjournment till noon, BJP chief whip Arjun Ram Meghwal told the Speaker about his notice for breach of privilege against Vadra.

There were protests when the Speaker said she had rejected the notices of adjournment moved by Kharge, M Veerapa Moily and K C Venugopal of the Congress and N K Premchandran (RSP) on the Lalit Modi controversy, as also similar notices by others on various issues.

Cong defence: ‘against rules’

Later, a rattled Congress Lok Sabha leadership scampered to formulate a response to the BJP’s move to give a notice for a privilege motion against Vadra. Kharge, Congress chief whip Jyotiraditya Scindia and party whips K C Venugopal and Deepender Hooda got into a huddle after which they marched to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s office with the rulebook.

Sources said they cited rules on privilege and argued the BJP’s Meghwal should not have been allowed to speak amid the din. “We brought to her notice that when the House in not in order, how can the privilege notice be moved?” Kharge said after meeting Mahajan.

Scindia said, “This is political vendetta as it worst…The very fact that in the din such a privilege motion was moved shows the character of the government.” Scindia said the Congress has asked the Speaker that the unparliamentary language and allegations made by Meghwal must be expunged.