Govt is determined it won’t allow LoP to speak in both Houses, says Congress chief

The Opposition was forced to locomotion retired of the Rajya Sabha due to the fact that the authorities was not acceptable to listen, Congress president and Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge said connected Thursday (February 5, 2026). The remarks came aft the agreed Opposition walked retired during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reply to the statement connected the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address.

Mr. Kharge said the Opposition had been denied the accidental to talk successful some Houses of Parliament implicit the past 4 days. 

“We wanted to perceive him. But for the past 4 days, we person been witnessing that our Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi was not allowed to speak,” Mr. Kharge told reporters. He said the Opposition had sought to spot “issues of nationalist interest” earlier some Houses, including concerns astir unemployment, inflation, and the payment of farmers.

Alleging that the authorities had “sacrificed farmers’ interests” to “broker a woody with America”, Mr. Kharge said the Opposition wanted accountability connected what helium described arsenic India’s “surrender” to U.S.’s demands nether President Donald Trump. “We wanted to inquire each these questions… A agreed Opposition had decided that if the LoP is allowed to talk past we would participate. But they didn’t let us,” helium said.

Mr. Kharge added that the Opposition had made repeated attempts, “under each rules and regulations”, to contiguous its presumption successful some Houses. “We weren’t disrupting the House. They are determined that they won’t let the LoP to talk successful Lok Sabha oregon Rajya Sabha. Had they heard maine for 2 minutes we could person resolved it,” helium said. He besides criticised the Prime Minister’s remarks, saying that leaders who built modern India were being routinely insulted.

Echoing the criticism, Congress main whip successful the Rajya Sabha and wide caput (communications) Jairam Ramesh posted connected X that the Prime Minister had delivered “another predetermination rally speech” lasting 97 minutes. He described the code arsenic “overflowing with abuses and assaults, distortions and dramatics, innuendos and insults”, accusing Mr. Modi of “blatant and brazen lies” and of being driven by “self‑obsession” and “dialogue‑baazi”.

CPI(M) MP John Brittas said the bureau of Leader of the Opposition is connected a par with the Prime Minister’s bureau successful a ideology “We seldom get the accidental to rise matters successful beforehand of the Prime Minister due to the fact that helium doesn’t travel to the House. Today, helium was there, truthful Mr. Kharge got up to explicit his views, but helium was not allowed.”