Several Parts Of Rahul Gandhi's Speech In Lok Sabha Expunged On Speaker's Order (Photo @Amockx2022)

Following the first speech of Rahul Gandhi as the opposition leader in the Parliament, it is reported that several portions of the Congress leader’s statements have been expunged from the record.

Monday’s session saw the lower house witnessing a heated debate between the members of the ruling party including the Prime Minister, Union Home Minister and Defense Minister and the opposition members, and the Leader of Opposition. The opposition leader’s speech targeting the BJP had triggered a war or words in the Parliament.

Rahul Gandhi’s remarks about several topics including the NEET allegations, businessmen Adani and Ambani, the Agnipath scheme, and minorities issues were expunged from the records of the Parliament on the orders of Speaker Om Birla.

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Talking to reporters today, Rahul Gandhi said that the truth can be expunged in Modiji’s world, but not in reality. “Watever I had to say, I said. I spoke the truth and they can expunge whatever they want. Truth will always remain a truth,” he said, reacting to the removal of portions of his speech in the Parliament.

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Further, the opposition leader wrote a letter to the Speaker demanding the restoration of the expunged remarks from his speech in the Parliament. In the letter, the Congress leader said, “I am shocked to note the manner in which considerable portion of of my speech have been simply taken off from the proceedings under the garb of expunction.”

“I am constrained to state that the portions expunged do not come under the ambit of 380,” the Raebareli MP said, adding that what he sought to convey in the Parliament was a ground reality.

He further noted that every member of the house personifies the collective voice of the people, representing the freedom of speech as enshrined in the constitution. “It is every members’ right to raise peoples’ concerns on the floor of the House,” he said.

“Taking off from records my considered remarks goes against the tenets of Parliamentary democracy,” Rahul Gandhi wrote.

The Congress leader also pointed out that BJP leader and former minister Anurag Thakur’s speech was full of allegations and yet “surprisingly only one word has been expunged.” He also said that the “selective expunction defies logic.”