PM Modi urges parliament speaker to consider action against Rahul Gandhi over his first speech as party chief in Lok Sabha | India News

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged Parliament Speaker Om Birla to consider taking action against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his maiden speech as Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.

The Prime Minister, responding to the debate on the motion of thanks to the President’s speech in the Lok Sabha, accused Gandhi of trying to drum up sympathy in Parliament and urged the President to take a firm stand against what he called “a tradition of lies” in the House.

“We will not be able to protect parliamentary democracy without taking what happened yesterday seriously. We should not ignore these acts by calling them childish, by considering them childish, we should not ignore them at all and I am saying this because the intentions behind all this are not good and I also want to wake up the countrymen,” Prime Minister Modi said in the Lok Sabha.

“A new drama has started to gain sympathy, but the country knows the truth: he (Rahul Gandhi) is out on bail in a multi-crore embezzlement case. He was convicted for calling OBC members thieves. He had to apologise after making an irresponsible statement in the Supreme Court. There is a case against him for insulting a great personality like the great freedom fighter Veer Savarkar. Today, the country is telling him: tumse na ho payega,” he added.