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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla conducts proceedings of the Home throughout the Monsoon session of Parliament. (PTI picture)
Birla’s feedback got here after BJP MP Pradip Purohit reference to an ayurvedic school, the place he traced the historical past of native herbs again to historical instances throughout a query to the Union Ayush Minister
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday suggested members to concentrate on asking direct questions quite than narrating tales or invoking the Mahabharat throughout the Query Hour.
“Don’t inform tales, ask the query (aap Mahabharat mat sunao, aap prashna poocho),” Birla mentioned, emphasising that MPs ought to keep away from prolonged narratives.
He remarked, “Invoking the Mahabharat is at present in vogue (aaj kal, Mahabharat sunane ka kissa zyada chala hai yahan par),” noting that references to the epic have gotten more and more frequent within the Home.
The Speaker’s feedback got here after BJP MP Pradip Purohit reference to an ayurvedic school, the place he traced the historical past of native herbs again to historical instances throughout a query to the Union Ayush Minister.
Birla’s remarks had been additionally made within the context of a speech earlier within the week by Chief of Opposition and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who claimed that the nation is being ensnared in a ‘chakravyuh‘ created by a small group.
“Within the twenty first century, one other ‘chakravyuh’ has been ready. It’s within the type of lotus and the prime minister (Narendra Modi) wears the image on his chest. What was performed with Abhinmanyu is being performed with India, with its youth, girls, farmers and small and medium companies,” he had mentioned.
Gandhi’s speech included references to the Mahabharat and accused the Modi authorities’s 2024 Union Price range of favoring large companies and political monopolies that undermine democratic buildings.
In response, BJP chief and former Union minister Anurag Thakur had criticised Gandhi’s speech, itemizing historic grievances he attributed to the Congress, together with the Partition of India, concessions to China, the Emergency, the Bofors scandal, anti-Sikh riots, and alleged assaults on India’s tradition and traditions.
Thakur had mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the nation out of the ‘chakravyuh‘ of the Congress.
Gandhi’s reference was to the Mahabharat legend in keeping with which Abhimanyu was killed in a ‘chakravyuh‘.
‘Chakravyuh‘ refers to a multi-layered navy formation geared toward trapping a warrior by opponents positioned strategically in an alignment resembling a lotus-shaped labyrinth.
(With inputs from PTI)
