Jagdeep Dhankhar accused Jairam Ramesh of misconduct and stated that he is not fit to be a member of the Rajya Sabha. Congress MPs had questioned Dhankhar for giving the floor to RLD s Jayant Singh to speak on the decision to confer the Bharat Ratna on his grandfather Chaudhary Charan Singh.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday issued a notice Priyank Kharge, former minister and son of Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge, over his naalayak remark about Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
BJP leader Manikanth Rathod was arrested in Hyderabad under charges of criminal intimidation, but was released on station bail the very next day, drawing protests from Congress leaders in Karnataka demanding action against him.