Topic: Congress

The Opposition intensified its noisy protests in Lok Sabha on Wednesday over farm laws, Pegasus snooping and other issues with some members even hurling papers and torn placards in the Parliament, but the Narendra Modi government went ahead with its legislative agenda and three bills were passed amid the din.

Congress former chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday reached Parliament on a tractor, registering his protest against the three contentious farm laws during the monsoon session.

Accusing the Narendra Modi government of “treason” and compromising on national security over the Pegasus spyware issue, the main Opposition Congress on Monday demanded the sacking of Home Minister Amit Shah and a probe into the “role of Prime Minister” Narendra Modi in the matter.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, was twice selected as a potential surveillance target in leaked phone number data, making him one of dozens of Indian politicians, journalists, activists and government critics whose numbers were identified as possible targets for the Israeli company’s government clients, according to an investigation into a massive data leak.

A case has been registered against 10 Congress leaders including former Chief Minister Digvijay Singh and his fellow Congress MLA PC Sharma at Ashoka Garden police station in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh after they demonstrated Sunday against the the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government who had allotted 10,000 square feet of land to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) organisation Laghu Udyog Bharati.

Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala addressed the press to cite the decision of the French prosecution agency to probe the Rafale deal for “prima facie corruption” and said, “If the French prosecutors can investigate the deal along with the role of former French President Francois Hollande and incumbent French president Emmanuel Macron, why should we in India, where the deal originated, not have a JPC probe?”