Why Cong MPs left Parliament fatafat today

July 19, 2016 16:16

It was full house in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha today. The buzz in the Central Hall of Parliament was about the Supreme Court ruling that Congress VP Rahul Gandhi should apologise for his comment that RSS was responsible for Mahatma Gandhi's death. None of the Congress MPs were keen to stay back in Central Hall and quietly slipped out of Parliament house on the pretext of going for lunch.

But not BJP MPs, who were glued to their mobile phones, keeping abreast with the news of the court ruling asking Rahul to apologise or face trial.

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