New Delhi
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Wednesday announced in the Lok Sabha that she had received notices for privilege motion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the same were under her consideration. The notices were moved by Congress MPs over their statements on the Rafale deal.

The notices were submitted against the two leaders accusing them of allegedly misleading the House on the Rafale deal during the debate on the no-confidence motion on July 20. The Speaker said five members each had submitted notices against the Prime Minister and the Defence Minister. “It (notices) is under my consideration,” she said during Zero Hour amid noisy protests by BJP members.

The statement from the Chair came after Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Jyotiraditya Scindia raised the issue of their notices against Modi and Sitharaman. “The PM has, along with the Defence Minister, deliberately misled the House. It is, therefore, requested that this notice of breach of privilege be accepted and referred to the privilege committee for further proceedings,” the Congress MPs have said in the notices.

Members from the BJP also wanted to speak on their notices for privilege motion against Congress president Rahul Gandhi, which they had submitted earlier. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said these members should be given an opportunity to speak. BJP’s Anurag Thakur alleged that Gandhi misled the House during the no-confidence motion debate on July 20.