Rahul Gandhi Wants To Ask Tough Questions But Has Attended Only Two Of 14 Defence Committee Meetings Since September 2019, Skipped Tour To China Border
by Prakhar Gupta - Dec 17, 2020 08:42 AM
Rahul Gandhi. (Qamar Sibtain/India Today Group/Getty Images)
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Rahul Gandhi was vacationing outside the country during some of the meetings of the Standing Committee on Defence.
On Monday (16 December), former Congress president Rahul Gandhi walked out of a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee along with two other party colleagues claiming that it was wasting its time on insignificant things instead of discussing âstrategic issues of national securityâ.
The Congress has since claimed that Rahul Gandhi, who wanted to discuss the situation on the Line of Actual Control with China, was not allowed to speak on this issue during the meeting in which top officials of the defence establishment, including Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, Army Vice Chief Sa
Citing waste of time, Rahul walks out of parliamentary panel meet on defence
Wed, Dec 16 2020 10:22:15 PM
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS): Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday walked out of a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Defence, accusing the panel of wasting time by discussing uniforms instead of Chinese aggression and national security, sources said.
According to sources, Rahul Gandhi tried to raise the issue of Chinese agression and better equipping the soldiers on the borders with China in Ladakh, but he was not allowed to speak by the committee s Chairman Jual Oram.
The sources claimed that the committee was discussing the uniforms of the three armed forces in the presence of Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, when Rahul Gandhi tried to intervene saying that the time of the panel was being wasted by discussing uniforms instead of Chinese agression on the borders and equipping the armed forces personnel in a better way.
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The MTC will be the first new “geographical” theatre command to be created as part of the biggest-ever military restructuring plan to build an integrated land-air-sea war-fighting machinery for greater combat punch in a more cost-effective manner.
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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi led a walkout of the parliamentary committee on defence (File)
New Delhi:
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and other members of his party walked out of a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on defence Wednesday, alleging that neither he nor his colleagues were allowed to speak during a discussion on new uniforms for the armed forces.
Mr Gandhi had said the panel s time was being wasted in talking about uniforms instead of discussing how to better equip India s soldiers, particularly in the face of threats at the country s borders. He was referring to the months-long stand-off with China at the Ladakh border, among other issues.