Rahul Gandhi urges Lok Sabha speaker to expunge ‘derogatory’ remarks about him

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to expunge the allegedly derogatory remarks made about him by Bharatiya Janata Party MPs in the Lower House of Parliament.

“Our aim is that the House should function and there should be discussion in the House,” the leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha told reporters after meeting Birla. “They can say whatever they want about me, but we want that there should be discussion in the House.”

Gandhi added that the speaker had assured him he would examine the matter.

The Congress leader did not specify which remarks he was seeking to get expunged.

However, since the beginning of the Winter Session of Parliament, members of the BJP have repeatedly accused top Congress leadership of colluding with billionaire philanthropist George Soros to “destabilise” India.

The BJP first raised the allegations on December 6, when party leaders Sambit Patra and K Laxman called Gandhi a “traitor” in a press conference.

Citing an investigation by the French investigative journalism outlet Mediapart into the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, they said: “OCCRP and Rahul Gandhi are two bodies and one soul. Rahul Gandhi does not want India to move ahead. He does not want the Indian Parliament to function.”

Mediapart recently reported that OCCRP had “accepted several US...

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