Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi and two other members of Congress, Rajeev Satav and Revanth Reddy, walked out of a meeting of the parliamentary panel on defense on Wednesday, the PTI news agency reported. The congressional leader alleged that instead of discussing how to better equip the soldiers, the panel wasted time discussing the military uniform while the Chief of Defense Staff, General Bipin Rawat, was present at the meeting.
The panel was discussing the military uniform Rahul Gandhi intervened in and said this could be decided by senior defense officials in the military, it emerged. The chairman of the panel, BJP deputy Jual Oram, did not allow Gandhi to speak because he wanted to raise the issue of the soldiers stationed at the Royal Line of Control.
The political leadership should discuss national security issues and how to strengthen the forces fighting the Chinese in Ladakh, Gandhi said, after which he was not allowed to continue.
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