The BJP and the Congress traded blows in a verbal battle in Parliament Thursday, after the former accused Rahul Gandhi of being a “traitor of the highest order” in an attack naming him, “some agencies of America” and billionaire George Soros in a “dangerous triangle trying to destabilise India”.
The Congress responded swiftly and strongly, condemning the attack on Rahul Gandhi and also calling out BJP MP Nishikant Dubey for “most derogatory words” targeting Rahul Gandhi and and the party.
Dubey’s furious initial attack prompted chaos and a temporary adjournment of the Lok Sabha, and a similar ruckus consumed the Rajya Sabha after another BJP MP, Sudhanshu Trivedi, alleged “suspicious and conspicuous attacks on national interest from abroad”.
The concerted attack followed a news report by French publication Mediapart that claimed “hidden links between a giant of investigative journalism (referring to the OCCRP, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, an Amsterdam-based news network) and the US government”.