Both the Houses of Parliament, on Friday, had to be adjourned as the Congress-led Opposition and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hardened their positions over the Sonia Gandhi-Smriti Irani face-off and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remark on President Droupadi Murmu.
In both the Houses, the ruling party members including Ministers were on their seats, demanding an apology from the Congress chief. The Congress MPs, on the other hand, demanded an apology from the Union Minister for allegedly ‘heckling’ Ms. Gandhi in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge shot off a letter to Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu, questioning how Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal were allowed to refer to Ms. Gandhi in the Upper House, who is a member of Lok Sabha.
