NEW DELHI: Both houses of Parliament witnessed heightened drama in the last couple of days during the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address. However, there was a difference. While Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arguably pulled off a coup in the Lok Sabha, his party president Mallikarjun Kharge failed to have his way in the Rajya Sabha due to the strict handling of the house by Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar.
Both Rahul and Kharge, while speaking in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on the motion on February 7 and February 8 respectively, used the opportunity to target the Narendra Modi government by training guns at businessman Gautam Adaniin in the light of accusations made by US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research against his companies regarding alleged stock manipulation and accounting fraud by his group.
