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Rahul Gandhi had alleged that the buildings of Indian democracy are underneath assault.
New Delhi:
Congress leaders have a behavior of maligning the nation and placing the blame on others, Union Minister Anurag Thakur mentioned on Thursday, amid a political row over Rahul Gandhi’s remarks within the UK that buildings of Indian democracy are underneath assault.
“Welcome to Parliament. It has been a week-long wait. Rahul Gandhi has maligned India from international soil, has unfold lies and insulted Parliament. He ought to come to the Home and apologise,” the knowledge and broadcasting minister mentioned.
Rahul Gandhi on Thursday arrived in Parliament Home after his return from overseas and met Speaker Om Birla urging him to permit him to talk in Lok Sabha.
Mr Thakur recalled that former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had known as Planning Fee members a “bunch of jokers”, whereas Rahul Gandhi had torn a authorities ordinance and dubbed it as “nonsense”.
“I’m wondering how (former prime minister and senior Congress chief) Manmohan Singh had stood such insults,” the BJP chief mentioned exterior Parliament.
Throughout his interactions within the UK, Rahul Gandhi had alleged that the buildings of Indian democracy are underneath assault and there’s a “full-scale assault” on the nation’s establishments.
He had additionally advised British parliamentarians that microphones are sometimes “turned off” in Lok Sabha when an opposition member raises essential points.
The Congress locations “one household” above everybody else, Thakur mentioned and added that “earlier additionally they used to say ‘Indira is India and India is Indira”. “This continues until date. It’s unlucky that as a substitute of apologising to the Home, he’s cursing the Parliament and parliamentarians,” he mentioned.
The BJP chief mentioned a gentleman tried to highschool Rahul Gandhi that even Indira Gandhi had avoided commenting on Indian politics on international soil, however the former Congress president didn’t study from him.
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