BHOPAL: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that for the first time in history, the Leader of the Opposition (the post he holds) was not allowed to speak in the Lok Sabha, referring to the frequent disturbances during the debate on the motion of thanks on the President’s speech in the recently concluded first half of the Budget session.
“I was interrupted once and twice when I tried to speak on former Army chief MM Naravane’s book in the Lok Sabha. I was about to speak on farmers as well but he stopped me from speaking,” Gandhi said in his address at the Kisan Mahashopal organized by the Congress against the US-India trade deal in Bhopal.
Gandhi criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the trade agreement, saying it was made without consulting any members of the Cabinet. “he [Modi] “He was under pressure because of the Epstein files and Adani’s criminal cases.”
“No action was taken for four months and suddenly Prime Minister Modi left the Lok Sabha and made a call to US President Donald Trump in which he expressed his willingness to sign the deal,” Gandhi said.
Addressing the gathering, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge also criticized Modi over the trade deal. “An agreement is being reached between two equal parties. Modi was forced to bow down… and threatened with tariffs,” Karg said.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav responded to Gandhi. “Rahul Gandhi is coming today, but we work for the farmers 365 days a year. Rahul should apologize to the people of the state. The Congress government should not talk about the farmers. His government was formed in 1956, so why was the irrigated area limited to only 750,000 hectares from then until 2003? The Congress has done injustice to the farmers,” he said.
