Rahul Gandhi unruffled by interruptions during his speech in Lok Sabha

New Delhi: While Rahul Gandhi awaited his turn to speak on the agrarian crisis under Rule 193, Mr Gandhi was seen being advised by an animated Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, who kept propping up his leader with key words during his speech.

NCP MP, Tariq Anwar, sitting beside Mr Gandhi, was also seen propping him up with Hindi words. Mr Gandhi was interrupted by the Treasury benches asking him to speak in Hindi, while a few BJP MPs sought to taunt him for his “sabbatical.”

Smiling at the interruptions, Mr Gandhi offered a few suggestions to the Prime Minister, saying if the government chooses farmers and the poor, the people would reward him with more electoral successes. “The achche din government has failed the country on the issue of farmers. It has ignored the farming community, while favouring the industrialists and rich people, which is a blunder, as the farmers will harm the BJP in future,” he said.

To his “aapke (your) Prime Minister”, the BJP MPs asked him to say “desh ke Pradhan Mantri (the country’s Prime Minister)”, to which Mr Gandhi retorted, “Achcha to aapke PM nahi hain, desh ke hain (So you accept he’s not your PM, but of the country).”

When he abruptly concluded his speech, Mr Scindia was heard saying loudly, “Well done, well done.”