Rahul Gandhi loses cool over questions on notice against him: 'You are doing disservice to this country'

Rahul Gandhi

• Rahul Gandhi slams media for bias after privilege motion questions
• BJP MP Dubey seeks Gandhi's termination and lifetime election ban in Lok Sabha
• Government accuses Gandhi of lying in Parliament, plans to expunge his remarks

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Congress MP and leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday criticised sections of the media over questions regarding a possible privilege motion against him.

Speaking to reporters outside the Parliament, Rahul Gandhi said, “You are not totally employed by the BJP. At least try to do a little bit of objective stuff, it gets really shameful... it's too much. You are responsible people. You are media people; you have a responsibility to be objective. You can't just take a word they give you... every day and run your whole show on that. You are doing a disservice to this country.”

His remarks came after BJP MP Nishikant Dubey said he had moved a motion in the Lok Sabha seeking the termination of Gandhi's parliamentary membership and a lifetime ban on him from contesting elections, accusing him of misleading the nation.

"I have moved a motion in Lok Sabha today against Rahul Gandhi on how he is misleading the nation with the help of forces like (George) Soros, who want to harm the nation. In the motion I have moved, I have requested that Rahul Gandhi's membership should be terminated and he should be barred for life from contesting elections," Dubey told ANI on Thursday.

The development followed Rahul Gandhi’s explosive speech in the Parliament, where he alleged that the government has "sold Bharat Mata" through the India-US interim trade deal and that it was a "wholesale surrender" with India's energy security handed over to America and farmers' interests compromised.

Soon after Gandhi’s speech, union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha was "full of lies" and the ruling alliance will seek to expunge from the House records the "lies" he has spoken.

"We will demand expunging of whatever lies Rahul Gandhi has spoken," he said.

Even though Gandhi promised to authenticate what he has spoken, the minister said, "I know he cannot authenticate them because he lied. He lied in the House." Rijiju further alleged that the Congress leader often lies deliberately and then leaves the House, instead of sitting there to listen to the reply of the minister concerned.