‘Afraid of truth, seeking refuge in lies’: Rahul Gandhi reacts to PM Modi’s RS speech | India News

New Delhi: Parliament Rahul Gandhi Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, he claimed that he was “seeking refuge in lies” while addressing the Lok Sabha.back Prime Minister Modi In his speech, the Congress leader said to

“Well, did what seemed like the right thing,” he added.In his much-anticipated speech in the Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Modi took aim at the UPA regime and claimed that a key component of the NDA regime, which had been in power for more than a decade, had “corrected the mistakes of the past”.When Prime Minister Modi started speaking, opposition lawmakers shouted slogans of “let the LoP speak” and “tanashashi nahi chalegi (dictatorship will not be tolerated)”. Shortly after the speech began, the opposition also went on strike.In his nearly 100-minute speech, Prime Minister Modi took away many members of the Gandhi family and accused them of “appropriating” Mahatma Gandhi’s surname.“For some, stealing is a family occupation. It is shocking that those habitual thieves also stole the surname of Mahatma Gandhi, a Gujarati,” PM Modi said.Further Digging on “Startup” Congress PartyPrime Minister Rahul Gandhi and his leadership claimed that the party “cannot even promote its own start-ups”. PM Modi said, “Congress has never promoted start-up culture… they can’t even promote their own start-ups”.He also accused Rahul of calling BJP MP Ravneet Singh Bittu a traitor and accused the Congress leader of insulting Sikhs.“What happened yesterday – ‘Yuvraj’ of the Congress, who has a ‘shaatir dimaag’, called a member of the House a traitor. His arrogance was at its peak. He did not call other people who left the Congress a traitor, but he said so to this member because he is a Sikh,” PM Modi said while replying to the motion of thanks for the President’s speech in the Rajya Sabha.Rahul Gandhi exchanged barbs with his former party colleague and Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu inside the Parliament complex on Wednesday. In a video released by the Congress, Gandhi called Bittu a “traitor”, while the minister retorted with a “desh ke dushman” (enemy of the country) taunt.