Govt, Opposition end stalemate in Rajya Sabha over Modi's Manmohan remarks

Congress uses Jadhav issue to agree to a truce; also, Jaitley said Modi didn't mean to question Manmohan's commitment to India

The parliamentary impasse over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments about former prime minister Manmohan Singh during an election rally in Gujarat ended on Wednesday.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley stated in the Rajya Sabha that the PM did not question his predecessor's commitment to India. The Congress party accepted the "clarification" and stopped its disruption of the proceedings.

Proceedings of both the Houses had been adjourned repeatedly since the first day of the winter session on December 15 with the Congress demanding the PM apologise for alleging that Singh, former vice president M Hamid Ansari and others had met at a dinner to