Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Thursday alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi getting more screen presence than leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi during President Droupadi Murmu’s address to joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament. “Who was shown how many times in the 51-minute President’s address?
• Leader of the House Narendra Modi: 73 times
• Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi: 6 times
• Government: 108 times
• Opposition: 18 times
Sansad TV is for showing the proceedings of the House, not for the narcissism of camerajeevi,” Ramesh posted on X. President Droupadi Murmu addressed both Houses of Parliament for the first time after the constitution of 18th Lok Sabha. Slamming the 1975 Emergency imposed by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi, the President called it the “biggest and darkest chapter of direct attack” on the Constitution.
“My government does not consider the Constitution of India as just a medium of governance; rather we are making efforts to ensure that our Constitution becomes a part of public consciousness,” the President said.ALSO READ: ‘Emergency reference a travesty of Parliamentary traditions’: Congress to BirlaResponding to the President’s address, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said on X,”Listening to the President’s address written by the Modi Govt, it seemed as if Modi ji is in a perpetual state of denial! The mandate was against him, because the people of the country rejected his slogan of “400 plus” and kept the BJP away from the figure of 272.”
“Modi ji is unable to accept this, that is why he is pretending that nothing has changed, but the truth is that the people of the country had asked for change,” he added.
Congress leader Tariq Anwar said,”They just made a few changes to old speeches. There was nothing new in the President’s address to Parliament today. Several elections have been held since Emergency in which the BJP was defeated. They have nothing new to say.”
