{"id":317218,"date":"2019-11-28T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T08:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317218"},"modified":"2019-11-28T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T08:21:31","slug":"lok-sabha-congress-walkout-on-sadhvi-pragyas-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lok-sabha-congress-walkout-on-sadhvi-pragyas-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha: Congress walkout on Sadhvi Pragya&#8217;s statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/lok-sabha-congress-walkout-on-sadhvi-pragyas-statement\/rahul-parliament\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-317219\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-317219 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rahul-parliament-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/rahul-parliament-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/rahul-parliament-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/rahul-parliament-696x456.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/rahul-parliament-642x420.jpg 642w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/rahul-parliament.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a>Members of the opposition including Congress party on Thursday walked out of Lok Sabha to protest the statement of\u00a0Sadhvi Pragya praising Nathu Ram Godse in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">During the debate on SPG yesterday, Sadhvi Pragya had described Nathuram Godse as a patriot, on which the Congress and the opposition had created a ruckus. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that thinking of Godse as a patriot is condemnable. Speaker Om Birla said in Lok Sabha that Pragya Thakur&#8217;s statement has been removed from the record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On the other hand, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi tweeted, &#8220;Terrorist Pragya calls terrorist Godse, a patriot. A sad day, in the history of India\u2019s Parliament.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">While addressing the media after the walkout in parliament, Rahul Gandhi said, &#8220;What Pragya Thakur is saying is the heart of the BJP &amp; the RSS.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Meanwhile, Pragya has been removed from the consultative committee of defence by the BJP.\u00a0Pragya will also not be able to attend BJP\u2019s parliamentary meetings for the rest of the winter session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">BJP working president JP Nadda on Thursday morning said that the way the party MP Pragya Singh praised Godse in Parliament, the party considers it completely wrong. This cannot be allowed. Nadda said, \u201cPragya Thakur\u2019s statement yesterday in the parliament is condemnable. She will be removed from the consultative committee of defence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the opposition including Congress party on Thursday walked out of Lok Sabha to protest the statement of\u00a0Sadhvi Pragya praising Nathu Ram Godse in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.\u00a0 During the debate on SPG yesterday, Sadhvi Pragya had described Nathuram Godse as a patriot, on which the Congress and the opposition had created a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":317219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,236,12055,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317221,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317218\/revisions\/317221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}