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Rajya Sabha Session highlights: Rajya Sabha adjourned to meet again on Wednesday.
Rajya Sabha Session LIVE updates: Leader of upper House JP Nadda attacked Congress while speaking on the Motion of Thanks on President's address. Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that the people had reaffirmed their support for the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance in the Lok Sabha polls by electing the NDA government for the third consecutive term. He attacked the INDIA bloc, saying he understands pain of those who faced a “significant defeat despite persistently spreading falsehoods”....Read More
Before his speech in the Parliament, Modi addressed the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) parliamentary party meeting . After winning his third term in office, this was his first address to the ruling bloc's MPs.
Modi's reply to the Parliament came a day after Rahul Gandhi's fiery maiden speech as the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
Gandhi's maiden speech – which lasted about 62 minutes – covered a wide sweep of hot-button issues from the ethnic conflict in Manipur to the NEET controversy, the Agnipath scheme for recruitment to the armed forces to the farm crisis, and inflation to the politics of hate.
It also provoked interventions from senior leaders on the treasury benches including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah, and defence minister Rajnath Singh.
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On its part, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused Rahul Gandhi of associating Hinduism with violence, hurting sentiments of the Hindu community and “denigrating” the position of LoP.
However, Gandhi clarified that he was talking about the BJP and that the ruling party is not the sole representative of Hinduism.
In the Rajya Sabha too, Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge took on the prime minister, accusing him of delivering "divisive" speeches in the Lok Sabha campaign.
