A day after former Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Adani issue, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on January 8 expunged several remarks made by the MP from Wayanad.
According to the list, in all, 18 remarks that Rahul Gandhi made during his speech were removed from the records.
Responding to a query by The New Indian regarding the expunging of his speech in the Lower House of Parliament, Gandhi said, โWhy were my words expunged?โ
He then went ahead to enter the Parliament building and then again came back and said, โNo, I am asking why my words were expunged?โ
Even Congress leader Jairam Ramesh dubbed the expunging of words from Gandhiโs speech as the cremation of democracy in Lok Sabha.
โWith the expunging of Rahul Gandhiโs remarks on PM linked Adani MahaMegaScam, democracy was cremated in the Lok Sabha. OM Shanti,โ he said in a tweet.
โThe entire world knows how he became number two from 609th place among the worldโs richest,โ Congress Rajya Sabha MP Pramod Tiwari told The New Indian. โThis shows the BJPโs governmentโs fear of its own corruption,โ he said.
In his speech, Gandhi alleged that the fortunes of the Adani Group had risen meteorically since the BJP government came to power at the Centre in 2014.
The remarks that were removed from the records include his questions on the Prime Ministerโs relationship with Adani, his mention of some photographs suggesting proximity between them, and his argument that their relationship dates back to the years when PM Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat.
