The Congress on Monday (February 2, 2026) accused the Narendra Modi Government of “misusing rules to heckle and silence” Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, preventing him from speaking on the 2020 India-China border conflict by objecting to references to former Army chief General (retired) Manoj Naravane’s memoir.
Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal, who repeatedly took on the Treasury benches as Mr. Gandhi attempted to raise the issue in the House, said the government was afraid that the “truth of its incompetence” would be exposed.
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“This faux-nationalist government is so afraid of the truth of their incompetence coming out that they have deployed a bunch of seniormost Cabinet Ministers to prevent LOP Sh. Rahul Gandhi ji from speaking. They moved heaven and earth to stall the publishing of Ex Army Chief Gen. Manoj Naravane ji’s book. And now, when excerpts are coming out exposing their so-called nationalist commitments, they are heckling and silencing the Leader of Opposition,” Mr. Venugopal said in a post on X.
“It is a textbook case of 21st-century fascism, where first you stifle dissent in public, and then misuse rules to further silence your opponents,” he added. Mr. Venugopal alleged that the government was “blatantly misinterpreting the rules of procedure” so that the House and the people of the country are deprived of knowing “their Himalayan blunders” during the face-off with China.
