‘Factually incorrect’: Congress writes to Speaker seeking action against PM Modi’s speech in Parliament | India News

NEW DELHI: Congress on Thursday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking action against PM Modi and Anurag Thakur‘s “factually incorrect, inaccurate and misleading statements” in the Parliament.
Congress MP Manickam Tagore has sought that provisions of direction 115(1) be invoked over PM Modi’s and Thakur’s statements.

Taking a dig at Anurag Thakur’s statement that PM Modi has not taken any holidays, Tagore said under what category election campaigns fall in terms of leave.The Virudhunagar MP said that PM Modi, during his response to the motion of thanks to the President’s address, criticized the Congress for its promise of Rs 8,500 per month to women.He noted that the promise was contingent upon winning the election and forming a government.
Alleging that PM Modi made “factually incorrect” statements regarding Congress party’s declining vote share in the Lok Sabha polls, Tagore said, “The Congress vote share increased in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Telangana, etc.”

Addressing PM Modi’s attack on Congress regarding “no bulletproof jackets” to the Army during the grand old party’s regime, Tagore said, “There was a shortage of jackets, not that jackets were not there. Even the police had bulletproof jackets like in the Mumbai attacks.”

“We had a Jaguar, Mig 29, SU- 30, Mirage 2000,” the letter said.
He called PM Modi’s statements “grossly misleading”.

He also pointed out BJP MP Anurag Thakur’s speech on Monday where Thakur accused the Congress of not providing arms and fighter jets to the Army.
“We had Jaguar, Mig 29, SU- 30, Mirage 2000….We had nuclear bombs, missiles like Agni, Prithvi, Aakash, Nag, Trishul and later Brahmos,” Tagore said countering Thakur’s claims.