‘Mics were turned off during emergency’, Dhankhar slams Rahul Gandhi for his remark on foreign soil

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Image Source: ANI ‘Mike was switched off during Emergency’, Dhankhar slams Rahul Gandhi for his remark on foreign soil

Lok Sabha microphone comment: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his Lok Sabha microphone remarks on foreign soil. Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi, Dhankhar said there was a time during the Emergency when the microphones used to be switched off. The controversy escalated when Gandhi told British MPs in London that active microphones in the Lok Sabha were often silenced against the opposition.

The mics were turned off during the emergency

‘I am the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the Lok Sabha is a big panchayat where the mike is never switched off. Somebody goes out and says mike gets switched off in this country, yes there was a time when mike used to switch off during Emergency, said Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar

Rahul Gandhi’s microphone remarks

During an event hosted by veteran Indian-origin opposition Labor Party MP Virendra Sharma in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons complex, Gandhi shared experiences from the Bharat Jodi Yatra, which she described as an “intense political exercise in mass mobilisation”. described.

In a lighter vein, he used the malfunctioning microphone in the room to speak about what he described as the “oppressive” debate of the opposition in India.

He said, ‘Our mics are not bad, they are working, but still you can’t turn them on. This happened to me many times when I was speaking,” the 52-year-old Wayanad MP told the gathering in response to a question about sharing his experience of being a politician in India with his counterparts in the UK.

(With inputs from PTI)

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