Rahul vs Shah, Rajnath: Parliament showdown over Naravane memoir — how it unfolded

NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha witnessed a large showdown connected Monday arsenic person of absorption Rahul Gandhi roseate to talk during the statement connected the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address.Rahul Gandhi began his code by quoting excerpts from the memoir of erstwhile Army main General MM Naravane, triggering contiguous objections from defence curate Rajnath Singh and location curate Amit Shah.

Both ministers protested connected procedural grounds, arguing that the publication had not yet been officially published and truthful could not beryllium cited successful the House.The Congress leader, however, insisted that the papers helium was referring to was “authentic” and that helium was good wrong his rights to punctuation from it. He said helium had not primitively intended to rise the issue, but decided to bash truthful aft

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MP Tejasvi Surya questioned the patriotism of the Congress enactment earlier successful the debate.“No statement connected who is patriotic and who is not. Our patriotism is not buried,” Rahul said.Rajnath Singh countered the reference, maintaining that the memoir had not been published and truthful could not beryllium brought into parliamentary proceedings.Home curate Amit Shah besides deed backmost sharply. “I listened cautiously to the code of the honourable Member of Parliament, Tejasvi Surya. At nary constituent did helium question the nationalism oregon quality of the Opposition,” Shah said.

“In his speech, referring to the play from 2004 to 2014, helium spoke astir nationalism, the country’s civilization and language, and said that these were not upheld by the authorities during that time. He did not question the nationalism oregon quality of the Opposition anywhere… Secondly, leaders of the Opposition are saying they are not being allowed to speak, portion they themselves are violating Rule 389. How bash we privation to tally the House?” Shah added.Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla intervened, citing parliamentary rules that prohibit quoting from books oregon paper clippings connected matters not straight related to House proceedings.“The defence minister, location curate and the Prime Minister rise questions connected our party, enactment leaders, and our nationalism. This nonfiction writes astir the PM’s character… This is neither astir China, nor the PM,” Rahul said.Opposition members, including Samajwadi Party main Akhilesh Yadav, accused the authorities of not allowing the LoP to implicit his speech, starring to large exchanges crossed the House.

As the uproar intensified, Speaker Birla yet adjourned the Lok Sabha.Earlier successful the day, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, portion seconding the Motion of Thanks, had launched a crisp onslaught connected the Congress-led UPA government, describing the play from 2004 to 2014 arsenic a “decade of mislaid opportunities” and a “narrative of excuses”. He argued that the opposition betwixt “weak leadership” and “great leadership” intelligibly acceptable isolated the Congress and the BJP.