Union Minister Kiren Rijiju dismissed the opposition’s no-confidence motion against Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, citing the NDA’s majority and Dhankhar’s commitment to public welfare. Rijiju condemned the motion, filed by 60 INDIA bloc MPs, who accuse Dhankhar of partisan conduct. The motion is unlikely to succeed due to the opposition’s lack of numbers in the Rajya Sabha.

This is the first time that a notice for bringing a motion to remove the Vice President has been moved in the Rajya Sabha.

The man had allegedly sent a bogus alert to the IndiGo flight crew about the presence of a bomb on the plane.