Sonia Gandhi leads a walkout following a confrontation between Jaya Bachchan and the Rajya Sabha Chairman.
On Monday, Jaya Bachchan objected, stating that “only Jaya Bachchan would have sufficed,” expressing her discomfort with women being identified solely by their husband’s names. On Friday afternoon, opposition parties, led by Congress veteran Sonia Gandhi, staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha in a strong show of support for Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan, who was protesting the repeated use of ‘Jaya Amitabh Bachchan’ in the Upper House. During this Parliamentary session, Ms. Bachchan, a renowned actor and wife of cinematic legend Amitabh Bachchan, has twice been introduced as ‘Jaya Amitabh Bachchan’ in Parliament, a practice she has strongly …
