Overview

• Footage from the September 11 DISHA meeting surfaced Friday showing Rahul Gandhi, as chair, telling members to seek permission before speaking and Dinesh Pratap Singh pushing back.
• Kishori Lal Sharma, the Amethi MP and co-chair, said members must address the chair during DISHA proceedings and likened the rule to speaking through the Lok Sabha Speaker.
• Singh argued the review should stay within the 43 schemes under DISHA guidelines and accused Gandhi of treating the forum like a political stage.
• The session lasted around two hours and reviewed about 38 programmes, and the tone eased at the end during a brief exchange over tea service.
• Attendance was disrupted as Unchahar MLA Manoj Kumar Pandey boycotted and Lalganj block head Shivani Singh skipped the meeting, a day after Singh led a protest demanding Gandhi apologise over a separate Bihar rally controversy.