Parliament on Wednesday was no different from the previous days of the Budget session with treasury and opposition benches trading charges on a host of issues. Slogans were raised, placards were shown and leaders entered the well of the House forcing several adjournments in both the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress missed no chance to hurl barbs at each other quoting one scam after the other to target each other.
After the BJP targeted former union minister P Chidambaram over allegations against him in the alleged Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, Congress hit back seeking a probe into allegations of corruption by Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel's daughter Anar Patel.
The BJP targeted Chidambaram after former bureaucrat RVS Mani backed claims of political interference in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case during the Congress-led UPA rule. The former undersecretary alleged that he was physically harassed during the interrogation to sign the second affidavit. The affidavit had said that there was no conclusive evidence to show the four killed - Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Zeeshan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana - were terrorists.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi demanded the mention of Gujarat case to be expunged, and went ahead to say that possibly the Congress also wanted to discuss the allegations against Chidambaram and his son.
Not just Chidambaram and Anandiben, Parliament also saw uproar over anti-Muslim comments made by Union Minister Ram Shankar Katheria in Agra. However, the Congress too faced the ire with AIADMK members entering the well of the House demanding action against Chidambaram's son Karti Chidamabaram in connection with his alleged role in the Aircel Maxis deal.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Opposition moved privilege motion against Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani for misleading Parliament on the issue of the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula at Hyderabad Central University. In response, Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya countered with a privilege notice against Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia for "misleading" the House on February 24.
Dattatreya accused Scindia of "defaming him and tarnishing" his image by attributing such comments to him that he never made about Vemula.
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