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Modi is not a dictator: Rajnath on Rahul remark

by IBNS 05 Aug 2014, 10:05 pm

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IBNS): After Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said they were not being allowed to speak in Parliament and that only one man's voice is heard alluding to PM Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the PM neither a dictator nor communal.

"The PM is neither a dictator nor communal. If he was, he wouldn't have got such a massive mandate," Rajnath Singh told reporters outside Parliament.

Earlier Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu said the Congress is raising the issue (of communal violence) in a wrong way in the House and making sweeping allegations.

Adding that the government is ready for any debate, Naidu said "there is peace in the country, let peace prevail in Parliament."

 Rahul Gandhi after leading his party in Parliament, entering the well of the House and demanding debate on the Communal Violence Bill, said: “We are not being allowed to speak in Parliament. We are asking for a discussion. There is a mentality in the government that discussion is not acceptable. Everybody feels it. We feel it. There is a mood in Parliament that only one man’s voice counts for anything in this country."

 Gandhi   marched to the well of the House, along with other Congress MPs, after Speaker Sumitra Mahajan refused to allow a discussion on the Communal Violence Bill taking place in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country.

 The Congress had sought an adjournment of the house proceedings to discuss communal violence issue.
 
Asked about his rare show of protest in Parliament, the 44-year-old Congress parliamentarian said, “I have raised my voice many times in Parliament”