NEW DELHI: The opposition bloc was forced to postpone the event scheduled for Friday afternoon to Saturday due to rain in the Capital. Continuous rain since Friday morning in the Capital forced the postponement of the “public impeachment” programme that was to be held in the lawns of the official residence of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge at 3:30 pm at Rajaji Marg in Central Delhi.
The programme will now be held on Saturday.
Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi confirmed that the programme has been pushed to Saturday. “We all have collectively decided to shift the public impeachment to Saturday 4 pm”, Gandhi said.
Sources said former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is scheduled to chair the proceedings, where Kharge will move the “motion” and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is expected to make the concluding remarks.
INDIA bloc leaders met on Thursday to give final shape to the “public impeachment” proceedings as a symbolic protest over the “vote chori” issue.
Congress general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Jairam Ramesh and K C Venugopal, senior Congress leader Meira Kumar, TMC’s Derek O’Brien, Samajwadi Party’s Harendra Malik, JMM’s Mahua Maji and CPI(M)’s John Brittas, among others, participated in the preparatory meeting on Thursday.
They decided not to call it a mock Parliament as initially suggested.
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