INDIA bloc parties walk out as PM says ‘people rejected propaganda, voted for performance’ in Rajya Sabha

It acts like a lighthouse for governments, he said adding the Constitution Day will disseminate the spirit of the Constitution in the country.

Modi said this is the first time in six decades that a government has returned to power after being in office for 10 years.

The third term for the BJP-led NDA is for making India a developed and self-reliant nation, he said.

The verdict is to make India the world’s third-largest economy from the current fifth. he said.

He took potshots at the Congress for its statement that the country was bound to grow irrespective of who was in power.

Those who ran the government on the auto-pilot mode can only make such statements, he said.

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INDIA bloc walks out

Meanwhile, the INDIA bloc parties, led by the Congress, staged a walkout of Rajya Sabha, after the Leader of the Opposition was not allowed to intervene during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech.

LoP Mallikarjun Kharge wanted to intervene during Modi’s reply to a discussion on a motion thanking the President for her address to the joint sitting of the Parliament.

Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, however, did not heed to his requests, leading to INDIA block MPs, raising slogans and asking for the LoP to be allowed to speak.

Modi continued his speech amid the slogan-shouting. This went on for some time with Kharge repeatedly pleading to be allowed to speak.

When the permission did come through, INDIA bloc MPs staged a walkout of the House.

Dhankhar condemned their act of walkout, saying this was an insult to the Constitution.

Modi too decried the walkout and said he was not trying to score points but was duty-bound to give an account of his government’s performance.

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