Parliament Din
Speaker claims Cong MPs were plotting something shocking during PM's speech
This story was originally published at 18:17 IST on 5 February 2026
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NEW DELHI – Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Thursday claimed that he asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to skip his address in the house on Wednesday, as he had information that some Congress members were planning something "shocking" when the prime minister spoke.
Modi was scheduled to reply to the motion of thanks to the President's address in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. However, Modi did not come to the house.
"I received reliable information that several Congress party members might approach the prime minister and perpetrate something unexpected," Birla said in the Lok Sabha after the house reassembled at 1500 hours after three adjournments due to pandemonium.
"I requested the prime minister to skip his reply, and I am grateful that he accepted my advice. This saved us from some unsavoury scenes inside the House," Birla said. Had something of "this kind" happened, it would have torn apart the democratic traditions of India forever, he said.
Birla also said some Opposition members of Parliament had behaved inappropriately inside the Speaker's chamber, which was not "good for our democratic traditions". He adjourned the House for the day as Opposition members continued to raise slogans and display placards.
The Congress and other opposition parties are agitated as the chair did not allow Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi to raise the issue of the Chinese army's incursions in Ladakh in 2020. On Monday, Gandhi tried to quote from an unpublished memoir by former army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane, but he was repeatedly interrupted by ministers, and the Speaker ruled that he could not read from the book.
On Tuesday, eight Opposition MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha for tossing papers in the air inside the House. End
Reported by Asim Khan
Edited by Saji George Titus
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