Spokespersons: Shri Gaurav Gogoi and Shri Pramod Tiwari: Shri Gaurav Gogoi said that I would like to mention how some rules, procedures, systems of Lok Sabha were rejected in the last session before the Waqf Bill. Prime Minister Modi Ji’s praises are accepted in this House, but when it comes to criticizing the policies of the government on any important issue, positive criticism, then the ruling party postpones the proceedings of the House through various excuses and runs away from its responsibility. All the opposition parties were worried about this. In the last two-three days, we were demanding an adjournment motion regarding the 27 percent tariff imposed by America on India’s exports. We were not allowed to use the mike even once. It is a matter of serious concern for our parliamentary decorum, parliamentary rules, procedures that we are seeing such precedents being set again and again.

We also saw a member of the ruling party in the Lok Sabha taking the name of the Leader of the Opposition of the Rajya Sabha and making serious baseless allegations against him. We also saw the scene where the Speaker came and made a comment in the context of the Leader of Opposition of Lok Sabha and without giving the Leader of Opposition an opportunity to speak, he adjourned the House and today for the third time we saw such an example where Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, who is the Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party, was mentioned, even if indirectly.

So, do all the rules and laws have no meaning for the BJP? We repeatedly demand in the Lok Sabha that you should discuss the Ministry of External Affairs through Demand for Grants. If Prime Minister Modi is really a Vishwa Guru, then why does he run away from discussion on the Ministry of External Affairs? The Demand for Grants of the Ministry of External Affairs has been discussed twice in the Lok Sabha and both times, as far as I know, happened during the UPA government in 2010 and 2011. After that, Prime Minister Modi has been in power since 2014, but this government with a 56-inch chest did not allow the Ministry of External Affairs to be discussed here even once. What is he afraid of?

We would like to know from Prime Minister Modi Ji-in your meeting in Thailand in the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) summit, did you raise this issue? You wrote a good letter about the way Hindus are a minority in Bangladesh, the current interim government of Bangladesh should take care of them. Did you raise that issue today? These are all the things that we want to discuss in the Lok Sabha through the discussion on the Demand for Grants on the Ministry of External Affairs. Friday, April 4, 2025