Cong Move Against Dhankar Linked To BJP Raking Up Sonia-Soros Link

Opposition INDIA Bloc’s move to submit a no-confidence motion to remove Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar seems more aimed at diversion from the ruckus over George Soros issue linking top Congress leaders — Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The opposition benches with about 60 MPs signing up for the motion indicates that it neither has the bench strength nor the time to follow through its intent. The anti-trust vote needs 14-day notice to be processed by which time the Winter Session would draw to a close (Dec 20). Congress leaders insisted that they had to go for a no-trust motion as the Rajya Sabha Chairman was “conducting House proceedings in an extremely partisan manner.” The party is reportedly upset that Dhankar allowed BJP members to raise Soros’s links with the Gandhi family — the treasury benches had raised the issue of Sonia Gandhi’s affiliation with George Soros’s FDL-AP Foundation as co-president, a foundation that had backed for independent Kashmir. The unusual unity to bring a no-confidence motion even as there are deep chasms within the INDIA Bloc surprised BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi. He wondered even as the INDIA Bloc were questioning Rahul’s leadership  and wanted Mamata to lead it, how were  they uniting to challenge the chair. After all Mamata’s TMC and the BJD had voted for Dhankar during the V-P election. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju condemned the notice against the V-P by 60 MPs. Continuing to hold threat  to Parliament’s functioning even for a special discussion to mark the Constitution’s 75^th anniversary, Jairam Ramesh wondered  if discussions scheduled for 4 days from December 14 would happen given the impasse.