New Delhi : Congress-led Opposition staged a walkout from Rajya Sabha on Wednesday as the Prime Minister was saying some "wrong things" during his reply to the 'Motion of Thanks' in the Upper House, Leader of Opposition in the House Mallikarjun Kharge said.
Addressing reporters immediately after the walkout, Kharge lashed out agains the Prime Minister. "It's his habit to lie, mislead people and say things beyond truth. I have just asked him that, when he was speaking about the Constitution, you didn't make the Constitution, you people were against it," Kharge said.
He further said, "I just wanted to clarify who was for Constitution and who was against it. RSS wrote in their editorial in 1950 that the bad thing about the Constitution is that there is nothing about India's history. They opposed the Constitution. They are against it since the beginning and they say that they are for it. Effigies of Ambedkar, Nehru were burnt. Now they are saying that we are against it."
Those who walked out with Kharge during the PM's reply on the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address included Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar.
Coming out in defence of Kharge, Pawar demanded that the Prime Minister or the Rajya Sabha should respect him as he is enjoying a Constitutional post.
Pawar said, "He (Mallikarjun Kharge) is on a constitutional post. Be it the PM or the Chairman of the House, it's their responsibility to respect him, but today it was all ignored and hence the entire opposition is with him, and hence we walked out."