Congress strikes privilege movement in opposition to PM Modi for sharing Anurag Thakur’s Lok Sabha speech | India Information

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday moved a privilege movement discover in Lok Sabha in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over “expunged” parts of BJP MP Anurag Thakur’s remarks tweeted by him on X together with the video of the entire speech.
Amid row over BJP MP Anurag Thakur’s comment in opposition to Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Prime Minster Modi shared the video of the 5 time BJP MP’s speech and mentioned it’s a “should hear”.
“This speech by my younger and energetic colleague, Shri Anurag Thakur is a should hear. An ideal mixture of information and humour, exposing the soiled politics of the INDIA bloc,” the prime minister added.

The Congress occasion since has taken exception to the Prime Minister’s shout out and accused him of encouraging “breach of parliamentary privilege” by endorsing the speech, which the grand outdated occasion branded as “extremely abusive and unconstitutional tirade”.
“Anurag Thakur is immature however was there a necessity for the Prime Minister to tweet?” the Rajya Sabha LoP Kharge mentioned.
“PM Modi ought to know the place to talk and who to defend. Leaving that apart, he’s speaking about inflaming sentiments. This shouldn’t be allowed in Parliament, it ought to be expunged,” Kharge charged.
Earlier within the day, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh identified that regardless of the Chair Jagadambika Pal assuring MPs that the feedback could be expunged, Sansad TV uploaded the unedited speech, and the Prime Minister publicly shared and praised it. He known as this a “new and shameful low within the annals of India’s parliamentary historical past” and mentioned it displays the “BJP-RSS and Mr. Modi’s deep-rooted casteism.”

Samajwadi Celebration chief a Akhilesh Yadav and Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra additionally fired salvos at Anurag Thakur’s feedback. Akilesh Yadav questioned the appropriateness of asking somebody’s caste, whereas Priyanka Gandhi Vadra identified {that a} socio-economic caste census is demanded by 80% of the nation’s inhabitants.
Congress’ media and publicity division head Pawan Khera mentioned that the phrases utilized by Thakur for Rahul Gandhi have backfired for the BJP and angered folks, echoing of their minds.