PM MODI URGES SPEAKER TO CONSIDER ACTION AGAINST RAHUL GANDHI OVER HIS FIRST SPEECH AS LOP IN LOK SABHA

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called upon Speaker Om Birla to consider taking action against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his first speech as the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha.

The Prime Minister, while responding to the debate on the motion of thanks to the President's Address in Lok Sabha, accused Gandhi of attempting to garner sympathy in Parliament and urged the speaker to take a firm stance against what he termed a "tradition of lies" within the House.

READ ALSO: PM Modi's reply to Motion of Thanks on President's address in Lok Sabha: Top quotes

"We will not be able to protect parliamentary democracy without taking seriously what happened yesterday. We should not ignore these acts by calling them childish, by considering them childish, we should not ignore them at all and I am saying this because the intentions behind this are not good and I also want to awaken the countrymen," PM Modi said in Lok Sabha.

"A new drama has been started to gain sympathy but the country knows the truth that he (Rahul Gandhi) is out on bail in a case of embezzlement of thousands of crores of rupees. He has been convicted in a case of calling OBC people thieves. He had to apologize after making irresponsible statement in the Supreme Court. There is a case against him for insulting a great personality like great freedom fighter Veer Savarkar. Today the country is telling him, tumse na ho payega," he added.