On Wednesday, Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge said that the opposition was forced to table the no-confidence motion against Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar.
The INDIA bloc has submitted a notice to bring a motion in the Rajya Sabha seeking the removal of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. Commenting on the opposition’s move, Kharge emphasised that no resolution to remove a Vice President had been brought since 1952, as those holding the position were “unbiased and beyond politics” but Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar is working as a spokesperson of the government for his next promotion. He further added that the biggest disruptor in Rajya Sabha is the Chairman himself.
Kharge further alleged that the Chairman deliberately stifled discussions raised by the opposition. “From the opposition side, whenever important issues are raised as per rules, the Chairman doesn’t allow a discussion in a planned way. Time and again, opposition leaders are stopped from speaking,” he said. “We have no personal enmity or political fight with him. We want to tell the countrymen that we have taken this step to safeguard democracy, the Constitution, and after giving it a lot of thought,” the congress chief concluded.
