The Lok Sabha was repeatedly adjourned on Friday amid a ruckus over Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur’s remarks on the Nehru-Gandhi family, PTI reported.
Earlier in the day, Opposition leaders criticised the PM CARES Fund, which was set up in March in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic by the prime minister’s office. They questioned the need for a new fund, and why it was not being audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. However, Thakur said they were criticising the fund “just for the sake of it” and that their “intentions are wrong, according to NDTV.
He also attacked the Nehru-Gandhi family. “In 1948, [the] then PM [Prime Minister Jawaharlal] Nehru-ji ordered the creation of a Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund like a royal order,” he said. “From 1948 till today, it has not been registered. How did it get FCRA [Foreign…
