RS, LS adjourned over JPC demand

Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned for the day on Friday, moments after proceedings started as Opposition leaders continued to raise demands for a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee or a Chief Justice of India (CJI)-designated committee into the allegations against the Adani Group in the Hindenburg Research report.

- ADITI PHADNIS New Delhi, 3 February

The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will convene at 11 am on Monday, February 6.

Internally, the Opposition believes it might be better to focus on a Supreme Court-monitored probe as the balance of advantage in a JPC might rest with the BJP, given the party's majority in both houses of Parliament. A JPC comprises members in proportion to their parties' strength in the two houses. The BJP far surpasses the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and has a slight majority in the Rajya Sabha.

"We have learnt from our mistakes" said a Congress spokesman, referring to the raucous row of 'chowkidar chor hai' ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in which party leader Rahul Gandhi linked the outcome of a Supreme Court order on Rafale to his allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and had to apologise later. "We are neither linking any individual to the Adani episode, nor the group itself. We want to know how regulatory agencies which the government oversees, neglected to perform their tasks and have jeopardised the savings of ordinary Indians".