"Every MP's Right": Rahul Gandhi Questions Expunging Of Parts Of Speech | Read

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi - whose scorching speech in Parliament Monday, which triggered a furious pushback from the BJP and interventions, twice, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi - wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla this morning to question the expunging of parts of that address.

Mr Gandhi acknowledged the Speaker's authority to "expunge certain remarks" but argued this power ought only to be exercised to strike out "those kinds of words... the nature of which have been specified in Rule 380 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Lok Sabha".