Parliament live: BJP on Rahul Gandhi vs PM Modi videos during stormy Lok Sabha session

The BJP on Wednesday posted two videos, one of which showed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi instructing Opposition members to protest in the Lok Sabha during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Motion of Thanks debate and another showing the Prime Minister offering a glass of water to one of the protesting Opposition MP.

BJP national spokesperson Shahzad Poonawalla took a dig at the INDIA bloc for their continuous sloganeering inside the House when the Prime Minister was replying to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address to both Houses of Parliament.

In one video, Rahul Gandhi is seen gesturing to Opposition MPs to come forward and protest in the House. Some of the Opposition members are seen entering the Well of the House and chanting slogans. In a second video posted by Poonawalla, PM Modi was seen offering a glass of water to one of the sloganeering MPs.

The MP that PM Modi offered water to did not eventually accept it and thanked him, as seen in the video. However, another Opposition MP took the glass from PM Modi and drank the water.

“Two contrasting pictures- Pic 1: LoP Rahul Gandhi himself encouraging MPs to break rules & jump in the well and disturb PM’s speech from the very beginning. Pic 2: PM Modi offers water even to a protesting MP who is heckling him. Who is the dictator? Does Rahul even deserve to be LoP?” Poonawalla tweeted.

In his over two-hour speech in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, PM Modi accused the Congress of plotting a “conspiracy to falsely” claim Hindus were violent amid opposition chants of “Justice for Manipur” and “Bharat Jodo“.

PM Modi also accused the Congress and its “entire ecosystem” of attempting to “look down upon, abuse and insult Hinduism”.

The Prime Minister’s remarks were seen as a counter to the Lok Sabha speech of Rahul Gandhi, his first as Leader of Opposition, in which he referred to Hinduism while attacking the BJP.

Training his guns on Rahul Gandhi, PM Modi used the word “balak buddhi” (immature mind) to refer to the Leader of the Opposition multiple times in his speech.