Various Congress lawmakers gave suspending business notices on Monday to discuss the failure of the government to set up a joint parliamentary committee JPC to investigate the Adani Group stocks rout. The MPs who gave the adjournment motion notice were Ranjeet Ranjan, Manickam Tagore and Pramod Tiwari, according to the news agency ANI.
In his notice, Pramod Tiwari said the Parliament should suspend the Zero Hour in order to discuss the failure of the government to set up a JPC to investigate financial mismanagement, corporate fraud, stock market manipulation and political corruption against the Adani Group.
Tiwari said that this House do suspend Zero Hour and relevant rules relating to Question Hour and other businesses of the day to discuss the Government s failure to form a Joint Parliamentary Committee JPC to investigate corporate fraud, political corruption, stock market manipulation and financial mismanagement against the Adani Group. Congress MP Manickam Tagore gave an adjournment notice in the Lok Sabha to discuss the Adani Group scandal and Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as MP. Opposition leaders were raising slogans against the government on the Adani issue.
The Parliament was adjourned within minutes of the beginning of the proceedings. While the Rajya Sabha was adjourned until 2 pm, the Lok Sabha was suspended until 4 pm on Monday.
Opposition MPs wore black clothing in the Parliament. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said they are wearing black clothes to show that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ending democracy in the country. Kharge said: "Why are we here in black clothes? We want to show that PM Modi is ending democracy in the country. He first finished autonomous bodies, then they put up their own government everywhere by threatening those who had won polls. Then they used CBI, ED, to bend those who didn't bow. Congress MPs, including Rahul Gandhi, wore black clothes and protested against the Centre over issues like price rise, GST hike on essential items and unemployment in August last year.
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