Rajya Sabha adjourned till Tuesday amid uproar over Modi's remark on Manmohan Singh

Rajya Sabha adjourned till Tuesday amid uproar over Modi's remark on Manmohan Singh

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Congress MPs also raised slogans for the same issue in Lok Sabha also

Rajya Sabhagot adjourned till11 amonDecember 27 amid the uproar by Congress demanding apology over the remarks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi against former prime minister Manmohan Singh.

Congress MPs also raised slogans onthe same issue in Lok Sabha today.

Early on Friday morning, Congress had sent anadjournment motion notice to Rajya Sabha under the rule 267of Rules of procedure and conduct of Business in the council of states, Rajya Sabha.

Meanwhile, BJP MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe also gave adjourned motion notice in Rajya Sabha under the same rule.

Modi while campaigning in Gujarat had said Manmohan Singh, former Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar, and former vice-president Hamid Ansari had met with the Pakistani high commissioner and former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri and discussed the Gujarat elections.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley reportedly also assured theopposition that the governmentwas open to discussion.