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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has said he had concrete information that many Congress MPs could carry out an “unexpected act” by reaching the spot where Prime Minister Narendra Modi sits and therefore he asked him not to come to the House to deliver his address.
If this incident had taken place, then this would have left the democratic traditions of the country in shreds, Birla said as the House reassembled at 3 PM.
Lashing out at opposition members, the Speaker said the conduct of some of them in his office on Wednesday was not appropriate and in fact was “like a black spot”.
“With sadness I have to inform that some members displayed such behaviour in the House on Wednesday that had never been witnessed in its history,” he said.
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday witnessed dramatic scenes as women opposition MPs charged towards the prime minister’s seat holding banners ahead of his scheduled speech, leading to adjournment of proceedings for the day.
Modi was not present in the House, and BJP member P P Chaudhary was making his remarks on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address when the opposition members trooped into the Well of the House.
In an unprecedented development, the Lok Sabha passed the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address without the customary speech by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, amid vociferous protests by the opposition.
The Speaker then read out the Motion of Thanks to the President for her address to both Houses of Parliament on January 28, which was passed by a voice vote, amid sloganeering by the opposition members.
