BJP MP Nishikant Dubey Seeks Privilege Proceedings Against Rahul Gandhi, Writes to Om Birla

Nishikant Dubey, BJP MP, wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, where he sought for privilege proceedings to be initiated against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for shamelessly twisting the historical and substantive facts and for an alleged attempt to mock our great nation and lower the prestige of our Republic, a day after Rahul Gandhi's riposte to the address of the President triggered a controversy.

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Gandhi had discussed the foreign policy an INDIA government would follow, saying, “When we talk to the US, we would not send our foreign minister to invite our prime minister to his coronation. We will not send him three or four times…‘please invite our prime minister’. Because if we had a production system and if we were working on these technologies, the American president would come here and invite the prime minister.”

“Rahul Gandhi, in his speech on the floor of the House, has inter alia raised six issues, viz. the mobile phones are not made in India but only assembled in India; forcibly capturing vast land in the Eastern Regions of our Country by China; our Country was not invited by the United States of America during the swearing-in ceremony of H.E. Mr. Donald Trump as the President; recent election to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly; appointment of Chief Election Commissioner/Election Commissioners in the Election Commission of India; and the caste-based census,” Dubey wrote to Birla.

Dubey further wrote that during Gandhi’s speech, he had “reminded him that whatever he is speaking on the floor of the House has to be authenticated by him”. “However, to the best of my knowledge, this ‘erudite’ person has neither authenticated his gibberish canards nor apologized for using the pious forum of Parliament to defame our Country and the elected Government,” he added.

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Dubey wrote that “it appears that Rahul Gandhi has misjudged Article 105 of our Constitution”. “It may be a fact that Shri Rahul Gandhi is still intoxicated by the unbridled privilege of belonging to a ‘privileged gharana’, but the fact remains that Article 105 of the Constitution of India does not give absolute powers…” he added.

S. Jaishankar called Gandhi's assertion a falsehood in a statement released on X. He said Gandhi’s “lies” may be politically motivated but “damage the nation abroad”.

The speech of Gandhi also irked a number of members on the Treasury benches when he stated, “We talk about defence and today, we have the Chinese. And the PM has denied it, and the Army has contradicted the PM… That China is sitting on 4,000 km of our land.”

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