Lok Sabha Microphone Comment: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar took a dig at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi over his Lok Sabha Microphone remark on foreign soil on Friday. Slamming Rahul Gandhi, Dhankar mentioned that there was a time during the Emergency when microphones were turned off. The controversy escalated when Gandhi in London instructed British parliamentarians that functioning microphones within the Lok Sabha are sometimes silenced towards the Opposition.
Mics were turned off during emergency
‘I’m Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha is a large panchayat the place mics have by no means been turned off. Someone goes out & says mics are turned off on this nation, sure there was a time during Emergency when mics were turned off, mentioned Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
Rahul Gandhi’s microphone remark
During an occasion organised by veteran Indian-origin Opposition Labour Party MP Virendra Sharma within the Grand Committee Room throughout the House of Commons advanced, Gandhi shared experiences from the Bharat Jodo Yatra which he described as a “deeply political exercise in mass mobilisation”.
In a lighter vein, he used a defective microphone within the room to make his level about what he described as a “stifling” Opposition debate in India.
“Our mikes are not out of order, they are functioning, but you still can’t switch them on. That’s happened to me a number of times while I am speaking,” the 52-year-old Wayanad MP instructed the gathering, in response to a query about sharing his expertise of being a politician in India with his counterparts in Britain.
(with inputs from PTI)
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