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Parliament Winter Session Day 8: Godse was a patriot, says Pragya Thakur in Lok Sabha; Sitharaman defends Centre on economic slowdown in Rajya Sabha

On the eighth day of Winter Session, Parliament took up some key bills, including the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Bill, 2019, the Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019 and the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill, 2019. Rajya Sabha took up a short duration discussion on the economic situation and the Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2019.

Day after Pragya Singh calls Nathuram Godse a 'patriot' in Lok Sabha, BJP removes MP from parliamentary panel on defence after Opposition outrage

The Congress took strong objection to Pragya Singh Thakur's remarks and lashed out at the 'deplorable hate politics' of the BJP

Gandhis lose SPG protection: History shows threat to family is real and constant, govt should quietly restore cover

If there is a vulnerable family anywhere in the world, it is the Gandhis.

Priyanka Gandhi unfazed by family losing Special Protection Group cover after 28 years, says 'it's politics and this keeps happening'

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday dubbed the removal of SPG cover from the Gandhi family part of politics which keeps happening.

Week after Gandhi family loses SPG cover, CRPF takes over security for Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka

The Gandhis are now without SPG protection after 28 years. They were included in the VVIP security list following an amendment in September, 1991 in the SPG Act of 1988. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now the only person to be protected by the around 4,000-strong SPG security.

Day after SPG protection withdrawn, Congress' Sonia Gandhi thanks elite force for its service, calls it 'outstanding'

The elite SPG security cover given to Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka was withdrawn on Friday, 28 years after the elite force's continuous deployment, and it was replaced by the 'Z-plus' security of the CRPF.

Congress' hue and cry over withdrawal of SPG cover misplaced, shows Gandhi family's uneasiness at not being special

With the SPG cover withdrawn, the Gandhi family is now like any other political family in the country and that makes Congress and its loyalists uneasy

Centre revokes SPG cover for Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, accords them Z+ security

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been stripped of the Special Protection Group (SPG) cover, government sources said

With Manmohan Singh's SPG cover removed, over 3,000 commandos of security force will now provide cover to just 4 VVIPs

The SPG with its 3,000 strong commandos now provides close proximate security to just four persons — Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her two children — Rahul and Priyanka