The politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have resulted in the death of ‘Bharat Mata’ (‘Mother India’) in Manipur, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said in a blistering the no-confidence debatethe no-confidence debate in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
The exact words used by Mr. Gandhi were removed from the official records by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, according to a bulletin issued late on Wednesday evening. Until the filing of this report, the Lok Sabha Secretariat, however, had not issued any bulletin regarding the expunction of the same words that were used by Union Minister Smriti Irani as a retort to Mr. Gandhi’s speech.
In a high-voltage speech, his first after being reinstated as a Member of Parliament, Mr. Gandhi referred to BJP leaders as those who are not patriots; accused the ruling party of “sprinkling kerosene everywhere and putting the country on fire”; and cited the recent communal flare up in Haryana.
