The Congress leader further said the entire opposition decided to walk out, as the Prime Minister failed to speak on Manipur, wrestlers’ harassment, Chinese intrusions, national security and inflation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress for divding "Maa Bharati" into three parts for political interests and also pointed out that the Katchatheevu Island was ceded to Sri Lanka during the tenure of the Indira Gandhi government in 1974.
Speaking in the Lok Sabha on Thursday over a no-confidence motion against the NDA government, Rathore said that the Congress leaders met the Communist Party of China in 2008 when the BJP MP was in Beijing during the Olympics.
In reply to the no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition against his government PM Modi said that the Congress party has continuously “side-lined” its leader Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary.
"It was a two-hour-long speech but he did not answer the questions which the people of the country have been asking. When will there be a guarantee on the safety of women in the country", said the Congress MP while speaking to ANI.
Demanding strict action against Rahul Gandhi, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) women MPs wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker OM Birla alleging the Congress MP of making inappropriate gesture and displaying indecent behaviour in the House.
Day 1 of the debate on the no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi government saw the Congress and Union Ministers locking horns over the situation in Manipur which has been witnessing ethnic clashes since May.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday blamed the Congress' "divide and rule" policy for the unrest in the Northeast . He said that while Congress created new states in the Northeast, not demarcating their boundaries properly resulted in "states fighting each other".
With the Congress gearing up for the next year's Lok Sabha polls, party president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday chaired a meeting of Assam unit leaders at All India Congress Committee (AICC) Headquarters here