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Monsoon Session
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Parliament adjourned amid protests over comments on Nehru-Gandhi family

| @indiablooms | Sep 18, 2020, at 11:15 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Parliament’s monsoon session this year was adjourned for the first time Friday after a fierce row erupted over Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur’s comment on the Nehru-Gandhi family and a counter-attack by a Congress MP calling him 'gadha'(donkey).

According to media reports, the row erupted when Union Minister Anurag Thakur began speaking in the defence of the PM-CARES fund, which the opposition alleges of lacking transparency.

"From the high court to the Supreme Court, every court has validated the PM-CARES fund. Little children have contributed to it from their piggy banks. Nehru set up a fund that has not been registered to date. You (Congress) only made a trust for the benefit of the Gandhi family. You made Sonia Gandhi its chairman. It should be investigated," said Anurag Thakur, reported NDTV.

His remarks evoked an immediate uproar from the opposition benches, specifically, Congress MPs, said the report.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury lashed out atThakur, calling him a donkey for bringing Nehru into the debate when Prime Minister Modi’s name was not mentioned in the matter.

Lambasting Thakur, he said: "Who is this boy from Himachal? Where has this donkey come from? How did Nehru come into this debate? Did we take (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi's name? This two-bit boy..."

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