Meanwhile, taking strong exception to BJP members, including the Defence Minister and the Speaker, interrupting and preventing Rahul Gandhi from speaking, Congress President and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Shri Mallikarjun Kharge said that the ideological foundation of the RSS-BJP was based on concealing facts, which was why the Modi government was avoiding answering serious questions on national security in Parliament as if someone had touched a raw nerve.

He said that Rahul Gandhi had raised a very serious issue related to national security in the House.

“What is written in the former Army Chief’s book that is making senior ministers of the Modi government so nervous?” he asked, adding, “who is preventing his book from being published?”

“The whole country knows that the BJP’s nationalism is fake,” Kharge Ji noted, adding, “they talk big about patriotism, but after the supreme sacrifice of our 20 soldiers in Galwan in 2020, Modi himself gave a clean chit to China. Isn’t this true?” Hasn’t the country been taken into confidence on issues related to national security and foreign policy in Parliament before, he asked, saying why those who talk about the “Mother of Democracy” were bent on trampling on the soul of democracy.