Nitish Kumar’s Party Chief Slams Colleague Over Rahul Gandhi Comment

Janata Dal (United) leader Rajeev Ranjan aka Lalan Singh has strongly objected to his birthday birthday celebration colleague and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh`s assaults on Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over the Congress chief’s complaint of the Indian parliament’s functioning in the course of a speech withinside the UK’s House of Commons on Tuesday. Mr Ranjan alleged a few humans can also additionally have pressured his Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), colleague to mention some thing in opposition to Mr Gandhi over the speech the Congress chief gave abroad, which drew intense complaint from the ruling BJP as “lies”. The BJP and JD(U) have been allies in Bihar earlier.

“Harivansh is the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman. He ought to realize some thing occurs in Lok Sabha isn’t always added up in Rajya Sabha. The contrary is likewise true. But you spot the combat among the centre and the Congress those days, someone need to have placed strain on Harivansh to mention some thing, so he stated it,” Mr Ranjan stated. “But we do not apprehend why the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman needed to deliver in a Lok Sabha matter? It is completely inappropriate,” Mr Rajan stated, relating to what Mr Gandhi had stated approximately the Lok Sabha’s functioning in his House of Commons speech.

At an occasion organised through Indian-foundation Labour Party MP Virendra Sharma, the Congress chief used a defective microphone withinside the room to make his factor approximately what he defined as a “stifling” competition debate in India.

“Our mikes aren’t out of order, they’re functioning, however you continue to cannot transfer them on. That’s came about to me some of instances even as I am speaking,” the 52-year-vintage Wayanad MP informed the gathering, in reaction to a query approximately sharing his revel in of being a baby-kisser in India. Denying Mr Gandhi’s claim, the JD(U) chief termed the comments “truly fake and baseless.”

“I’d like to mention it is truly fake and baseless. Nothing may be extra fake than this. I had been in parliament for the beyond 9 years and now no longer as soon as have I heard some thing like that from anyone,” Harivansh informed information corporation ANI. The BJP has accused Mr Gandhi of maligning India on overseas soil. It informed the Congress now no longer to “betray the nation”.

During the United Kingdom meeting, Indian-foundation peer Lord Navnit Dholakia requested Mr Gandhi approximately the Congress’s record, to which the previous Congress leader blamed a “propaganda machine” that doesn’t replicate a “sturdy undercurrent” in opposition to the government.