Speeches by PM Modi, Anurag Thakur inaccurate, misleading: Congress MP to Speaker

New Delhi: Congress' Lok Sabha member Manickam Tagore on Thursday wrote to Speaker Om Birla, alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP MP Anurag Thakur had made "inaccurate" and "misleading" statements during their speeches in the House earlier this week and thus sought "requisite proceedings" and "appropriate action" against the duo by the Chair. The letter from the Congress MP, incidentally, came days after BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj approached the Chair with a similar plea against certain contents of LoP Rahul Gandhi's speech.

It is learnt that Tagore in his letter disputed Modi's claim that Congress vote share has gone down in 16 states where the party fought solo. Instead, he argued that the party "increased its vote share" in Telangana, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and Himachal. He contested the PM's claim that the Army was not provided with bullet-proof jackets during Congress rule and argued that there was only a shortage of such jackets then. Tagore also disapproved the PM's claim that Congress governments didn't give fighter jets to the Army and pointed out that Mig 29, Jaguar, Mirage 2000 and Sukhoi SU 30 had been commissioned then.

Regarding Thakur's speech, the Congress MP objected to the claim that "25 crore people were brought out of poverty" and that PM Modi has not taken a single holiday.

RG Meets Construction workers
AICC released photos of LoP Rahul Gandhi on Thursday spending some time with construction workers at GTB Nagar in Delhi and trying his hand at their skills. In a short video message, Gandhi said, "I spoke about 'Abhay Mudra' in Parliament. We want to respect and protect those who are working with their hands. Most of the people in India work with their hands and don't earn much."