New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday launched a scathing attack on Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha. Comparing the direct public dialogue of the BJP and the public relations programs of the Congress led by Rahul Gandhi, he said that there is a ‘big difference’ between the two.
In an interview to news agency ANI, the Home Minister said that there is a lot of difference between managing a program and communicating with the public. Targeting the Congress, Shah said that the party wants to create ‘confusion’ and is facing increasing ‘frustration’ after the electoral defeat. He said that they (Congress) want to create a kind of confusion among the people and they will definitely not succeed, because our direct contact with the people is many times more than them. We talk to people. We have not come and sat here just like that. After losing three elections, I think the level of frustration has increased so much that he (Rahul Gandhi) has lost normal decision making ability. He also said that contrary to the allegations of the opposition, the presence of CISF inside the Parliament is not an attempt to justify right or wrong. At the same time, Amit Shah further said that first of all, understand this very well that inside the Parliament, it is in the jurisdiction of the Speaker to deploy any force. He said that the identity of the force does not matter. Earlier Delhi Police personnel were deployed, now CISF personnel are deployed.
He further said that but as soon as they come within the security perimeter of the House, they are not considered CISF or Delhi Police personnel, but they are considered marshals. And they work under the authority of the Speaker. Marshals enter the House only when the Speaker orders them to do so.
Earlier on August 5, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh had said that the Modi government has ‘admitted’ that CISF personnel were deployed in the Rajya Sabha and whatever name is used for their presence in the House, ‘it is an insult to Parliament.’
In a post on social media ‘X’, Jairam Ramesh hit out at the government and said that Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge was right in asking whether Union Home Minister Amit Shah has ‘taken control of the Council of States’. He said that this is an insult to Parliament and the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha was right today by asking whether the Union Home Minister has taken control of the Council of States. So finally the Modi government has today admitted that CISF personnel were deployed in the Rajya Sabha last week to prevent opposition MPs from exercising their right to democratic protest. You may call them by any name, but the truth is that they were all from CISF, Jairam Ramesh said.
Amid uproar in the Rajya Sabha, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju refuted Kharge’s allegation that CISF was brought into the House. He said that only marshals can enter the House. He alleged that Kharge misled the House and wrote a ‘wrong letter’ to the Deputy Chairman. He said that opposition members are making false allegations in the media that the Army, CISF and police were brought into the House.
