Parliament Session 2024 Live Updates: Making all efforts to normalize situation in Manipur, incidents of violence on the decline, PM Modi says


05:54 (IST), July 3

In an unusual move, the Speaker reprimanded LOP Rahul Gandhi.

It was a rare occasion when Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla named and reprimanded the newly appointed Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of leading opposition members to the well of the House. Incited to protest while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was making his statement. Reply to the vote of thanks on the President's address to a joint session of Parliament.

“It is distasteful to you as the Leader of the Opposition… I have seen you asking members to go to the well. Such behavior is unwarranted by you,” Birla said.
Opposition MPs, mostly from the Congress, started protesting from both sides of the well and hurled abuse at the PM throughout the over two-hour speech. As Modi rose to speak, opposition members, amidst constant chanting, urged the Speaker to allow the Manipur MLA to speak. As Birla said one of them had already been given an opportunity to speak, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi rushed to the well along with two MPs from Manipur.

Later, several Congress MPs entered the well, while TMC members stood in the aisle and announced their support.

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