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Rahul Gandhi meets Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, asks him to expunge ‘derogatory’ remarks against him
Rahul Gandhi said he held a meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and urged him to expunge derogatory comments against him.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he held a meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and urged him to expunge derogatory comments against him.
“I held a meeting with the Speaker. I told him that derogatory comments against me should be expunged. The Speaker said that he would look into it...Our aim is that the House must run and discussion should happen in the House. No matter what they say about me, we want to have a debate on 13th December...They don't want a discussion on Adani. In the end, we will not leave this. They will keep levelling allegations on us but the House must function,” Rahul Gandhi told reporters.
Earlier on December 5, BJP Lok Sabha MPs Nishikant Dubey and Sambit Patra had riled up the Opposition Congress by alleging links between Rahul Gandhi and Hungarian-A day later, while speaking in the House,
A day later, while speaking in the House, Dubey brought up Soros and the global investigative news network OCCRP (Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project).
He remarked, “Congress ka haath, Soros ke saath. Congress has relations with OCCRP, which gets all its funds from the US government and George Soros. Did Rahul Gandhi take money from George Soros for the Bharat Jodo Yatra?”
His statement had caused a high-voltage drama as Congress MPs stormed the Well of the House in protest, however, the House was adjourned.
The Congress members demanded to know the status of their notices regarding breach of privileges against Dubey and Patra.
Earlier on Thursday, outside the Parliament, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, while responding to queries about BJP's Patra calling Rahul Gandhi a ‘traitor,’ said, “Those who can call Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi traitors, have no qualms about calling Rahul Gandhi one. There is nothing new in this. I am proud of my brother, and for him, nothing is above this country.”
