“Didn’t Go To Assault Anyone”: Varsha Gaikwad Defends Congress

New Delhi: Congress MP Varsha Gaikwad on Tuesday criticized Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju for sharing the video of “insulting behaviour” of Congress MPs in Parliament. Today, Rijiju shared a video on X showing Congress MPs, including Varsha Gaikwad, approaching Treasury Benches with posters.

Speaking to ANI, Gaikwad defended waving posters at Treasury Benches, refuting the Union Minister’s allegations as “baseless allegations”. He stated that female MPs did not go to the ruling MPs to attack anyone. “Wasn’t Kiren Rijiju in the Assembly that day? What’s new in the video? Didn’t he see the video already? False allegations are being leveled against us. We didn’t attack anyone; we were just holding a banner. He (PM Modi) got scared because of the banner. He got scared of buying books. He doesn’t want to talk about tariffs or he doesn’t want to talk about tariffs,” the Congress MP said. Chinese. Did we make any action with our hands or say anything? Is it wrong to carry a banner?

Earlier today, Kiren Rijiju posted the video on On Thursday, Speaker Om Birla said that after receiving information that some Congress MPs could come to the Prime Minister’s seat and “invoke an unprecedented incident”, he urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to come to the House to avoid any untoward incident. On Monday, Congress women MPs said their protest in the Assembly was peaceful and in line with parliamentary norms, but they were facing unprecedented targeting.

In the letter, the MPs highlighted that Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi was repeatedly denied the opportunity to speak for four consecutive days during the Motion of Thanks for the Presidential Address, while a BJP MP was allowed to make “vulgar and obscene” remarks about former Prime Ministers. The MPs also highlighted that when they met the Speaker to demand action against the BJP MP, he admitted that he had made a “serious mistake”, but later stated that he was waiting for the government’s response, stating that he was waiting for the government’s response. can no longer act independently on such matters. The MPs claimed that the next day the Speaker, who was reportedly under pressure from the ruling party to justify the Prime Minister’s absence, issued a statement containing “serious allegations” against them.