00:00Let's cut across to news coming in from Parliament, where the Rajya Sabha Chairman
00:09Jagdeep Dhankar has rejected the Congress' privilege motion against Home Minister Amit
00:13Shah.
00:14Congress' Jayaram Ramesh had moved this privilege motion against Amit Shah after accusing
00:19Amit Shah of targeting Sonia Gandhi.
00:22Remember that the Home Minister, while speaking, in fact, on the disaster management, also
00:29mentioned how, in fact, the Congress and how one family had all control of the PM relief
00:37fund.
00:38And while he hadn't named Sonia Gandhi, the Congress has said it was clearly a dig at
00:42Sonia Gandhi and that's why they moved the privilege motion against him.
00:59That's when Moshmi Singh, she's joining us live with more details on this Moshmi set
01:25back for the Congress with their privilege motion being shot down by the Rajya Sabha
01:29Chairman.
01:30But give us details really of why the Congress took offence to Home Minister Amit Shah's
01:33statement there.
01:34Simply, Akshita, because the Congress says that Sonia Gandhi is a member of the upper
01:41house and this is a matter of privilege that the Home Minister made unsubstantiated allegations
01:49against a present member of the house and the rule book says that you need to substantiate
01:56it.
01:57On the other hand, we heard the chairperson today say that the privilege motion has been
02:03dropped because whatever Amit Shah has said, he has substantiated those charges.
02:09That invariably means that the PM relief fund at that point of time when the UPA was in
02:16power indicating Amit Shah said that the Congress President also controlled the PM
02:23relief fund and at that time Sonia Gandhi was the President so the chairperson found
02:30it substantiated enough to not accept the privilege motion that was moved by Jairam
02:35Ramesh.
02:36Alright, thanks very much Moshmi for getting us all of those details.
02:39The Congress's privilege motion being shot down as Moshmi tells us, the Rajya Sabha Chairman
02:44saying that Home Minister Amit Shah has substantiated every statement that is made in the house
02:49and of course, remember that the entire showdown was over Home Minister Amit Shah's comments
02:54really on the first family of Congress.
02:58As he put it, while he didn't name Sonia Gandhi, he alleged that it was one family that in
03:04fact controlled relief funds.
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