Sonia gets proactive, takes on the cartoons

Congress president Sonia Gandhi was in a no-nonsense mood in the Lok Sabha on Monday. She lost her cool more than once and even chided her party leaders during a debate on the recent cartoon row. It all began with Sonia arriving early. She whispered something to minister of state for telecommunications Jyotiraditya Scindia sitting two rows behind her. He went to Congress MP from Mumbai Sanjay Nirupam and passed on instructions to him and some other MPs. Scindia also got with him a photocopy of the NCERT textbook on political science that has the controversial cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr BR Ambedkar.

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