PM: Cong MPs Don't Get to Participate in Discussions Due to Leadership Insecurity

Monsoon Session Ends

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed disappointment at the absence of normal proceedings in Parliament's Monsoon session leading to the passage of several Bills amid the Opposition's protests, and said bright and young MPs of the Congress do not get to participate in discussions due to the "insecurity" of its leadership.

Sources said Modi made these remarks at the customary informal meeting of leaders from different parties in Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's office after the House was adjourned sine die. Opposition leaders kept away from the get-together.

The sources added that he did not name Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the House who is leading his party's agitation against the Election Commission's drive to revise electoral rolls in Bihar, but his remarks were apparently aimed at him.