Live Budget Session 2016: BJP Anurag Thakur attacks at Rahul Gandhi

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DELHI: BJP Anurag Thakur attacked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for supporting protests against sedition charges on Jawaharlal Nehru University students, and said the opposition party’s slogan was “Family first, Party second...Nation last. Thakur asked to Congress vice-president Rahul gandhi, “Are you with Afzal Guru, with the people who attacked Parliament or with democracy”.
The Hamirpur MP’s comments came after a heated day in Parliament, where several opposition leaders criticised the government over its handling of the JNU controversy, where sedition charges were levelled against students for allegedly shouting “anti-national” slogans, and the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad. “Nobody can brand an entire university or all students anti-national. Some fellows inspired by Maoist ideology are trying to misguide them,” Union minister Venkaiah Naidu said later. Earlier in the day, Congress leader Jyoritaditya Scindia tore into the government , blaming the NDA for the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad and saying the sedition controversy on JNU was a blot on the nation. Soon after Question Hour, Mahajan said the House would take up a short duration discussion on the functioning of universities in the country, including incidents at JNU and Hyderabad University, in the afternoon. Leader of Congress Mallikarjun Kharge along with two others had given notice of Adjournment Motion on the issue and the Speaker decided to go for the discussion on the issue today itself. “If students are found guilty of anti-national sloganeering then strictest possible punishment should be given,” Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav said over the debate. This led to protests by other Opposition parties, including Trinamool Congress, CPI (M), CPI, BJD and TRS, who said that Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia had himself proposed on Tuesday in the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting that the discussion should be held on February 25 after presentation of the Railway Budget. Rajya Sabha has already decided to discuss the issue.
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