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Writing to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, women MPs of the Congress party, connected Monday (February 9, 2026), stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s lack from the Lok Sabha during the Motion of Thanks to the President, was not owed to immoderate menace from them [women MPs]. Instead, they said, it was an enactment of fearfulness arsenic the Prime Minister does not person the courageousness to look the Opposition.
Karur MP S. Jothimani’s missive further noted that the women are being “targeted simply due to the fact that we person consistently fought against Prime Minister Narender Modi’s anti-people authorities and demanded accountability from him.” The letter, signed by six MPs including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Jyotsna Charandas Mahant, R. Sudha, Varsha Eknath Gaikwad, comes connected the heels of sedate allegations by the Speaker.
Mr. Birla connected Thursday (February 5, 2026) said that helium had asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to travel to the Lower House to present his response to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s code since helium had “concrete information” that many Congress MPs could transportation retired an “unexpected act” of protestation astatine the PM’s seat.
In their letter, the MPs alleged that Mr. Birla has been forced by the ruling enactment to “make false, baseless, and defamatory allegations against women Members of Parliament belonging to the Opposition, peculiarly from the Indian National Congress.”
The MPs besides said that the Leader of Opposition has been “deliberately denied” the accidental to talk connected the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address. Lok Sabha has been witnessing disruptions since February 3 aft Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi was disallowed by the seat from quoting from an nonfiction based connected excerpts of erstwhile Army main M M Naravane’s ‘unpublished memoir’ successful which helium has referred to the India-China struggle of 2020.
The missive went connected to enactment that “eight members of Parliament from the INDIA confederation were suspended connected the behest of the ruling enactment and a BJP Member of Parliament was permitted to talk successful a vulgar and obscene mode astir erstwhile Prime Ministers.”
“When we met you, we demanded justness and the suspension of the above-mentioned BJP MP, you acknowledged that a sedate mistake had occurred and asked america to instrumentality astatine 4 pm. Upon gathering you again, you stated that you were awaiting the government’s effect regarding the issue, indicating that you are nary longer the determination shaper successful specified matters. This raises superior questions regarding your authorization arsenic Speaker of the House. Subsequently, astatine 5 pm, violating accepted procedure, the Prime Minister was scheduled to talk successful the Lok Sabha. All members of the INDIA confederation roseate successful protestation and the Prime Minister failed to look successful the house,” the missive added.
Amply wide that Speaker is nether sustained unit from the ruling party
The women MPs further wrote: “Our protests person been unrelentingly peaceful, firm, and wholly wrong antiauthoritarian norms. Most of america travel from humble backgrounds and galore are archetypal procreation politicians. Our journeys person been built from decades of hard enactment among the people, facing absorption and discrimination. Questioning our integrity is simply a grievous onslaught connected each pistillate who earns her spot successful nationalist beingness with dignity and courage.”
Alleging that it is “amply wide that you [Speaker] are nether sustained unit from the ruling party,” the MPs urged Mr. Birla to enactment arsenic the impartial custodian of the Lok Sabha.
