Lok Sabha adjourned for the day amid Opposition protest over deportation issue

Amid noisy protests from the Opposition, Jaishankar work a connection successful the Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha was scheduled to instrumentality up a treatment connected the Union Budget presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman connected February 1.

Several Opposition leaders, including the Congress’s Deputy Leader successful the LS Gaurav Gogoi, had submitted notices to determination an adjournment question implicit the “mistreatment” of deportees from the US. Lok Sabha was archetypal adjourned during Question Hour and aboriginal astatine 12 noon erstwhile the presiding serviceman allowed the tabling of parliamentary papers.

BJP subordinate Dilip Saikia, who was successful the chair, adjourned the proceedings until 2 pm. Similar scenes were witnessed erstwhile the House reconvened, starring to an adjournment until 3.30 pm.

Amid sloganeering, Union MoS for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal informed the Lok Sabha that Jaishankar would marque a connection connected the deportations astatine 3.30 pm, raising anticipation that the proceedings would resume aft the External Affairs Minister’s statement.

Jaishankar underlined that the “use of restraints” was arsenic per the US’s modular operating procedure, and Delhi was engaging with Washington DC to guarantee that deportees were not ill-treated. He besides pointed retired that the “process of deportation was not new”.

LS Speaker Om Birla adjourned the proceedings for the time arsenic the Opposition protests continued aft Jaishankar’s statement.

Earlier successful the day, Opposition leaders, including Congress president and Leader of Opposition successful the RS Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of Opposition successful the LS Rahul Gandhi, Congress Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Samajwadi Party main and MP Akhilesh Yadav, and those from the Left parties, protested successful the Parliament House analyzable against the attraction meted retired to the Indians by US authorities.

Some Opposition leaders protested wearing handcuffs. Carrying placards that work “Humans. Not prisoners”, the Opposition leaders raised slogans specified arsenic “Indians insulted. India won’t enactment silent” against the government. “We, the INDIA parties, shall not tolerate the humiliation of Indian nationals,” they said.

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