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New Delhi: In all likelihood, Privilege motion moved against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the issue of Raffle Aircraft deal and privilege motion against Rahul Gandhi will not be accepted by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

Indications are coming in that privilege motions might not be accepted by the Lok Sabha Speaker as they might not be substantiated. Actually both the political parties are trying to get mileage out of it as elections are coming closure.

The BJP alleged Rahul Gandhi for telling the House lie while the Congress is alleging the PM and the defence minister to misguide house.

New Delhi: Estranged Bharatiya Janata Party leader and film actor Shatrughan Sinha questioned the timing of the Prime Minister's three-nation tour of Africa and also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over mob lynchings and the controversy on Rafale fighter aircraft deal with France.

Taking to twitter, the sidelined BJP leader wrote: "Dear Sir! As usual,while Parliament is in session, you are on a 3 Nation African tour. Heavens wouldn't have fallen if you'd left after the session. You could have still visited some of the nations left on the globe...(sic)" Sinha said in a series of tweets. "... Also, humble request to direct us as a privilege motion on Rafale deal against Govt has been moved.Jai Hind!", he added.

New Delhi: Anil Ambani wrote a letter eight months ago to Congress President Rahul Gandhi refuting allegations of his Reliance Group lacking experience to get the Rafale fighter jet deal. Ambani had said that the government had no role in French Group Dassault picking up his company as a local partner.

In a two-page letter written on December 12, 2017, Ambani explained to Gandhi, who has been attacking the government over the Rafale deal, why his Reliance Group bagged the multi-billion dollar project. 

Invoking his family's "respectful relationship" with the Gandhi family over generations, Ambani said he was "personally saddened" by the "unfortunate statements" against him and his group by several functionaries of the Congress party.

New Delhi: Rashtriya Lok Samata Party president and Union minister of state for human resource and development Upendra Kushwaha created a flutter by saying that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar should voluntarily "give up the bid" for a fourth term in office in 2020.

In an interview to a news channel here, Kushwaha said Kumar had served as chief minister for close to 15 years and the time had come for him to consider "giving somebody else a chance".

"It has been close to 15 years since Nitish Kumar was first blessed with the mandate to govern Bihar. It is a pretty long period for a leader to prove his mettle. I think he should now himself give up the bid for another term", Kushwaha said.