Requested PM not to come to LS: Birla

Fear over ‘unexpected act’ by Cong MPs

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Lok Sabha (LS) Speaker Om Birla Thursday said he had “concrete information” that many Congress members might move towards Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi’s seat and carry out some “unexpected act” as a result of which he had requested him not to come to the House to reply to the discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address.

As the LS reassembled at 3pm after three adjournments, Birla said if this incident had taken place, then this would have left India’s democratic traditions in ‘shreds’.

In an unprecedented development, the LS passed the Motion of Thanks Thursday without the PM’s customary reply that was scheduled a day earlier in the face of relentless sloganeering by Opposition members.