Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday requested Rajya Sabha chairperson, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, why components of his speech on Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been scrubbed from parliament records, an afternoon after comparable motion in opposition to celebration chief Rahul Gandhi. “I do not assume there has been some thing unparliamentary or accusatory in opposition to all people in my speech… But some phrases have been misconstrued… If you had any doubt, you can have requested in a unique manner, however you’ve got got requested for my phrases in six locations to be expunged,” he stated in Rajya Sabha.
“[Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari] Vajpayee sahab had used a phrase in opposition to [Former Prime Minister PV] Narasimha Rao ji and that phrase remains withinside the books,” Mr Kharge added. Mr Dhankhar attempted to placate the Congress leader saying, “Chairman is the closing defender of the Leader of the Opposition.”
The deletion of Rahul Gandhi’s remarks – because of this that they can’t be reproduced in any shape with the aid of using the media – has induced a prime controversy, with the competition accusing the authorities of censoring its statements in parliament.
“Why have been my phrases expunged?” the Congress MP requested journalists as he headed into parliament throughout PM Modi’s announcement on Wednesday. On his manner out, he stated the Prime Minister had didn’t solution the questions he raised an afternoon ago.
“I requested him easy questions (approximately his courting with billionaire Gautam Adani). He did now no longer solution them… it famous the truth. If they have been now no longer friends, he might have agreed to an inquiry. He stated not anything approximately allegations of shell agencies withinside the defence sector,” he stated.
The Congress, along side different competition parties, has set up a fierce assault on PM Modi’s authorities over fraud allegations in opposition to Mr Adani’s ports-to-electricity conglomerate. The group, with good sized funding from state-run firms, has misplaced 1/2 of its marketplace fee in a inventory rout.
The Adani Group has known as the accusations with the aid of using US-primarily based totally short-supplier Hindenburg Research a “malicious aggregate of selective incorrect information and stale, baseless and discredited allegations which have been examined and rejected with the aid of using India’s maximum courts”.
