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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday (March 15, 2026) commended Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for conducting the House proceedings with “dedication, patience, and impartiality”, saying that his actions would fortify the country’s parliamentary democracy.
In a missive to Mr. Birla, the Prime Minister congratulated the members of the House for rejecting “political misconduct” by defeating the Opposition’s no-confidence question brought against the Speaker successful the Lok Sabha.
“After the no-confidence question was defeated, I listened cautiously to the connection you delivered successful the House. The mode you referred to parliamentary history, the responsibilities of the Chair, and the supremacy of the rules, with balance, patience, and clarity, is precise impressive. I congratulate you for this,” helium said.
‘Disagreement turned into disrespect’
Describing Parliament arsenic the highest level of antiauthoritarian institutions, Mr. Modi said the Lok Sabha Speaker’s work was not lone to behaviour the proceedings, but besides to support antiauthoritarian traditions, rules, and organization dignity.
The Prime Minister said differences of sentiment were earthy successful a democracy, but added that it was a substance of interest erstwhile governmental disagreement turns into disrespect for parliamentary dignity. “In specified moments, the idiosyncratic occupying the Chair is tested. The gentleness, balance, and impartiality with which you faced these situations is commendable,” helium said.
During the tenure of Sumitra Mahajan arsenic the Lok Sabha Speaker too, the behaviour of immoderate members was not successful keeping with the dignity expected of them, Mr. Modi said. “Unfortunately, adjacent contiguous specified tendencies are visible... it affects the dignity of the instauration that is the awesome of the full democracy,” helium said.
He said that “some radical with a dynastic and feudal mindset” were incapable to easy judge immoderate caller idiosyncratic coming forward, oregon the caller and young MPs getting adjacent accidental to speak. Under Mr. Birla’s tenure, the tone of giving a spot to the dependable of each conception of nine had continuously expanded, and helium discharged his duties adjacent successful adverse circumstances, the Prime Minister said.
‘Dialogue, statement and deliberation’
Mr. Birla shared the missive done a station connected X, saying that Mr. Modi’s connection would animate each elected representatives successful Parliament, State legislatures, and section bodies, transcending enactment boundaries.
“Your missive expresses those highest ethical values of nationalist work that you person lived by passim your agelong nationalist life; some successful your existent relation arsenic Prime Minister of India and antecedently arsenic Chief Minister of Gujarat. You person ever held a heavy content successful the cardinal quality of Parliament: dialogue, debate, and deliberation,” said the Speaker.
In a connection to each governmental parties, Mr. Birla called connected them to articulation hands and strive to further fortify the public’s religion successful parliamentary democracy. The dignity and prestige of India’ s parliamentary ideology has precocious been undermined by the behaviour of immoderate members, helium said.
“The mode successful which banners, placards, and signboards are being displayed wrong the Chamber and the Parliament complex, the benignant of connection being used, and the quality of the behaviour and behaviour being exhibited, are matters of heavy interest for each of us. It is imperative that we all, some individually and collectively, prosecute successful superior reflection and investigation regarding this situation,” helium said.
