Rahul right to walk out of defence panel meet: Punjab CM chinanationalnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chinanationalnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Punjab CM backs Rahul s decision to walk out of parliamentary defence committee meeting ANI | Updated: Dec 17, 2020 22:56 IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], December 17 (ANI): Terming Rahul Gandhi s walkout from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence committee as totally justified, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to look into the working of the committee.
According to an official release, the Chief Minister said the committee should have been discussing strategic security issues and the urgent requirements of defence forces in view of problems being created by China and Pakistan. With both China and Pakistan breathing down India, the committee should have been discussing strategic security issues and the urgent requirements of our forces and not the polish they need to shine their shoes and buttons. I m very sad to see today that the Chairman of the Standing Committee on D
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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)
Snapshot
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
Rahul Gandhi leads walk out of House defence panel
Rahul Gandhi
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New Delhi: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and other Congress MPs on Wednesday walked out of a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence after its chairman Jual Oram of the BJP stopped him from raising the issue of Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh.
Party leaders said Rahul wanted to discuss whether national security was in jeopardy with the Chinese forces occupying Indian territory in Ladakh. Since the standing committee meetings are held in camera, nobody is ready to speak on record, lest he is hauled up for breach of privilege. But, from all accounts, the confrontation took place during a discussion on the uniforms of the Army, Navy and Air Force in the presence of the Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat.