Rajya Sabha adjourned for day amid Oppn calls to discuss Adani, Sambhal

Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Wednesday, 27 November, as opposition members insisted on a discussion on various issues, including bribery charges related to the Adani Group.

The proceedings were first briefly adjourned in the morning session due to the opposition protest, and when the House re-assembled at 11:30 a.m., there were identical scenes.

This prompted chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar to adjourn the proceedings for the day, saying the "House is not in order".

The trouble started after Dhankhar rejected 18 notices placed before him under a rule of the House to suspend scheduled business and take up issues mentioned in the notices.

The notices related to demands for the 'constitution of a JPC to investigate the alleged misconduct, including corruption, bribery, financial irregularities of the Adani Group in connivance with other authorities', the violence in Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, and rising incidents of crime in the national capital.

"Upper House needs to reflect and follow well-established traditions that ruling of the Chair requires reference and not cause differences. I have, in detail, given reasons why, in these situations, notices are not being accepted," Dhankhar said while rejecting the notices under Rule 267 of the House.

On Monday (25 November) also, the Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day during the morning session itself as the opposition insisted on raising the issue of the Adani bribery indictment.

There was no sitting of the House on Tuesday, 26 November.

The Adani Group said earlier on Wednesday, 27 November, that Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar have not been charged with any violation of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in the indictment that authorities filed in the New York court in an alleged bribery case.