‘Should be thrown out of country’: Pragya Thakur slams Rahul Gandhi for ‘Oppostion’s mike silenced’ remarks

Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha MP Pragya Thakur on Saturday hit out at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for his recent remarks on foreign soil, saying that he must be thrown out of the country.

The BJP MP from Bhopal claimed Chanakya had said a “son born to a foreign woman can never be a patriot” and that “Rahul Gandhi had “proved” the saying was true.

Rahul Gandhi, during his tour to the UK, during a speech, said that functioning microphones in Parliament are often silenced against the Opposition.

“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,” Rahul Gandhi had said, which triggered a war of words between the BJP and Congress.

“We have assumed you are not from India because your mother is from Italy,” Thakur was quoted by PTI as saying. She was replying to a query on Gandhi’s allegations during an event in the UK that his party colleagues were not being allowed to speak in Parliament.

“You go to a foreign country and say you don’t get an opportunity to speak in Parliament. Nothing can be more shameful than this. They [Rahul Gandhi] should not be given a chance in politics and should be thrown out of the country,” Pragya Thakur told ANI.

“More work will be done if Parliament functions smoothly. (But) If there is more work, then they (Congress) will not survive. Their (Congress) existence is on the verge of ending. Now their mind is also getting corrupted,” she said.

A row erupted after Rahul Gandhi said in London that the structures of Indian democracy are under “brutal attack” and there is a full-scale assault on the institutions of the country. He told British parliamentarians in London that functioning microphones in the Lok Sabha are often silenced against the Opposition.

Addressing the Indian diaspora in London, the Wayanad MP attacked the BJP and said the Opposition is not allowed to raise the China issue in the Indian Parliament, adding the government doesn’t allow the concept of opposition in the country.

Gandhi’s comments at Cambridge University that Indian democracy is under attack have become the latest flashpoint between Congress and the BJP.

Reacting to Pragya Thakur’s statement, MP Congress media department chairperson KK Mishra said Thakur was an accused in the Malegaon blast case.