#Monsoon #Session: #Congress MPs wear black bands despite #Speaker’s #warning ,both Houses of Parliament adjourned

New Delhi: After the first two days of the Monsoon Session of Parliament failed to transact any business, the Day 3 of Parliament is underway.

Deadlock is likely to continue in Parliament on Thursday as well with the Congress-led Opposition remaining adamant on demand for resignations of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Here are the live updates:

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Modi during election campaign promised corruption-free government: Rahul Gandhi
• PM Modi silent on Vyapam scam, Lalitgate: Rahul Gandhi
• Protests disrupt proceeding in Parliament for third day in a row
• of Rajya Sabha adjourned till 12 noon.
• Uproar in Lok Sabha over Lalit Modi-Sushma Swaraj controversy.
• That is their way: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on allegations that Opposition protests inside Lok Sabha not being shown on camera.
• That is Modi’s style of suppressing: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on allegations that opposition protests inside Lok Sabha not being shown on camera.
• None of our ministers will resign: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in Rajya Sabha
• Speaker adjourns Lok Sabha till 12 noon.
• Uproar in Lok Sabha over Lalit Modi controversy and Vyapam scam, Opposition MPs raise slogans against NDA govt
• Congress MPs, including Rahul Gandhi wear black armbands despite Speaker Sumitra Majhajan’s warning.
• Proceedings in both Houses of Parliament begin.

On Wednesday, both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha witnessed turmoil for the second day running as the Congress and other opposition parties joined hands to target the government, which in turn hit back aggressively — both inside Parliament and outside.

The government flatly ruled out the resignations of Sushma Swaraj, who has been linked to former IPL chief Lalit Modi; Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, also for her links with Lalit Modi; and her Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is facing the heat in the Vyapam recruitment scandal.

As the impasse in Parliament raged, the Bharatiya Janata Party opened a new front outside, accusing Uttarakhand Chief Minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat and a close aide of corruption vis-a-vis liquor barons — and demanded Rawat’s resignation.

Rawat denied the charges but the Congress said an FIR has been registered, the aide asked to go, and a time-bound inquiry would follow.

Later, the BJP raised the issue of a chargesheet filed against former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister PK Thungon of the Congress over a 1998 corruption case. There was ruckus in both Houses of Parliament all through Wednesday.

Bureau Report