The Opposition claimed that the PM backed out from delivering his speech as he was “afraid”.

Earlier than adjourning the proceedings for the day, the Lok Sabha Speaker mentioned he had urged PM Modi to not come to the Home over “particular data” that he had obtained concerning opposition members planning to conduct a protest in an unprecedented method. The nation, he mentioned, noticed what occurred within the Home on Wednesday.

“When the Chief of the Home was to answer the President’s tackle, I obtained credible data that a number of members of the Congress get together would possibly method the Prime Minister’s seat and trigger an untoward incident,” Birla mentioned.

“If this incident had occurred, this extraordinarily disagreeable spectacle would have shattered the nation’s democratic traditions. To stop this, I urged the Prime Minister to not come to the Home. And because the Speaker of the Home, it was my duty to uphold the excessive traditions and dignity of the Home.”

Birla mentioned it was not acceptable in any approach for the Chief of the Home to not communicate within the Home and by accepting his request and never being current, “the Chief of the Home saved the Home from this disagreeable state of affairs”.

“I specific my gratitude to the Honourable Prime Minister for accepting my suggestion,” he added.

Later, senior BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned that the Lok Sabha Speaker expressed his anguish. “Within the historical past of the Indian Parliament, it has by no means occurred earlier than that the Prime Minister was forcibly prevented from talking surrounded, and the Speaker needed to inform him to not come. What the Opposition and the Congress members did, and what they wish to obtain? Parliament is a spot for debate; specific your views inside the limits of legislation,” he added.

Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera mentioned studies have been being planted within the media claiming that the Congress get together was planning to make use of girls MPs to “assault” the Prime Minister on Wednesday.

“Is protest by a girl thought of terrorism? Have been the Modi authorities and their compliant journalists uncomfortable with a Dalit lady MP standing up? Do they think about them untouchable? The Modi authorities and its servile journalists ought to apologise to the ladies of the nation, particularly Dalit girls.” he posted on X.

On Wednesday, BJP MP Manoj Tiwari claimed that quite a few girls MPs from the Opposition had entered the Nicely of the Home and had moved in the direction of the PM’s, whereas not paying heed to the repeated appeals by senior ministers to return to their seats.

“You’ll be shocked to see the images of what occurred at the moment… This example exhibits that because the public is defeating them (Congress), they won’t permit us (BJP) to talk within the Parliament,” he mentioned. “The nation has achieved such an ideal honour, but they won’t permit it to be celebrated, and they’re doing all this to forestall Prime Minister Modi from talking. The nation is watching every thing, and the nation will demand a solution from the Congress.”

The opposition MPs have been referring to a e-book that has not but been revealed, in contrast to within the case of Nishikant Dubey, he added.