‘PM did not live up to his responsibility’: Rahul displays unpublished memoirs of ex-army chief Naravane outside Parliament

New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi Excerpts from the unpublished memoirs of former army chief General MM Naravane and the accused were displayed on Wednesday. PM Modi For “failing to fulfill responsibility” during the 2020 India-China military clash in Ladakh.Speaking to reporters outside Parliament Congress leader Said, “The speaker is saying that this book does not exist, Rajnathji has said that this book does not exist. This is Narvaneji’s book in which he has written an account of Ladakh… Narendra Modiji has not fulfilled his responsibility.””He asked the Army Chief to do what he wanted to do. Army Chief General Naravane clearly wrote in this book that he felt really alone. This is what they are afraid of me saying,” he added.Quoting the book, he added, “PM Modi did not fulfill his responsibility and gave money to the then army chief.” “If the Prime Minister comes to the Lok Sabha, I will give him a book by former Army Chief Naravane: Rahul Gandhi,” Gandhi added.His comments came after he tried to quote from an unpublished book during a session of Parliament on Monday. Gandhi insisted on raising the issue of the India-China confrontation of August 2020 and was repeatedly interrupted by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and later Home Minister Amit Shah, who asked him not to quote from any unverified sources. Naravane was the army chief at the time of the Ladakh conflict. The excerpts quoted by Rahul Gandhi were recently published by an online portal.Earlier, on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi had written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla expressing his “strong opposition” for not giving him an opportunity to speak on the President’s address during the ongoing budget session. He called the ban a “stain on our democracy” and alleged that the government was “scared” of what was written in the book.