Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, for the second yr in a row, skipped the eightieth Independence Day celebrations led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Crimson Fort.
In 2024, an issue erupted in the course of the Independence Day celebrations when Gandhi, who’s the Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha and enjoys the standing of a Cupboard minister, sat within the second final row – in a departure from custom and protocol – for the programme on the Crimson Fort.
The Opposition referred to as the allocation of the seat to the Congress MP an insult to the folks, even because the Defence Ministry, which organised the occasion, argued that the association was tweaked to accommodate Olympians on the premises.
As per protocol, the Chief of Opposition is seated within the entrance row throughout ceremonial occasions.
The relations between the ruling social gathering and the Opposition deteriorated additional in the course of the Monsoon Session of Parliament that ended on Thursday. The session witnessed a number of lows when it comes to productiveness – with each the Opposition and the ruling social gathering blaming the opposite for the low productiveness within the session that started with college students marching on Parliament on July 20, the primary day of the session. Twelve payments had been handed, with detailed dicussion happening on just one – the anti-paper leak laws.
The Congress, together with Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Social gathering, boycotted the customary tea social gathering hosted by Speaker Om Birla after the Home was adjourned sine die.
