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Hitting backmost astatine Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s accusations that the Opposition parties’ protest successful Parliament were drama, Congress person Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said connected Monday (December 1, 2025) that, rather, refusing to let a treatment connected issues of nationalist value constitutes the existent “drama.”
Ms. Vadra told reporters extracurricular Parliament, “What is Parliament for? It is not drama. Speaking astir and raising issues is not drama. Drama is the refusal to let treatment and the lack of antiauthoritarian statement connected matters of nationalist concern.”
“We person spoken astir aerial pollution. Why are we not allowed to sermon these issues?” she added.
Her member and Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, declined to remark erstwhile reporters asked him to respond to the Prime Minister.
But she responded to the Prime Minister’s remarks including his comments to reporters to “enjoy the weather.”
Enjoy the weather
“The Prime Minister says, ‘enjoy the weather’. What upwind should the radical of Delhi enjoy? At slightest instrumentality a peek extracurricular to spot what is happening successful the country,” Ms. Vadra said.
“I truly consciousness that this concern is shameful. This is the superior metropolis of our country. I consciousness that we should acceptable speech enactment affiliations and, successful confederation with administrative, political, civilian society, and judicial elements, instrumentality immoderate beardown steps,” she said.
Citing a study, Ms. Vadra said 22 lakh children person imperishable harm to their lungs, seemingly owed to aerial pollution.
“How tin 1 bash this to our children. There are aged radical who are suffering, radical who person asthma already, and radical who person different respiratory issues; hospitals are afloat of respiratory issues. How tin we beryllium present and bash nothing?” the Congress person said.
“We are present to supply support. The Central Government and State Government indispensable instrumentality contiguous action.”
