New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Pragya Thakur on Saturday (March 11, 2023) launched a scathing attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and said he has "proved" Chanakya's saying -- "son born to a foreign woman can never be a patriot" -- was true. She also said that the former Congress president must be "thrown out of the country" for some his remarks made on foreign soil. Gandhi had this week told British parliamentarians in London that functioning microphones in the Lok Sabha are often silenced against the Opposition. He had also slammed the Narendra Modi-led government for the alleged attack on Indian democracy.


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"We have assumed you are not from India because your mother (Sonia Gandhi) is from Italy," Thakur, who is better known as Sadhvi Pragya and is a Lok Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, said.


"More work will be done if Parliament functions smoothly. (But) If there is more work, then they (Congress) will not survive. Their (Congress) existence is on the verge of ending. Now their mind is also getting corrupted," she added.


"You (Rahul Gandhi) are a leader of this country, have been elected by the people (here), and are now insulting the public. While sitting abroad, you (Rahul Gandhi) are saying you are not getting an opportunity to speak in Parliament. Nothing can be more shameful than this. He should not be given a chance in politics and should be thrown out of the country," Thakur said.



Earlier this week, Rahul Gandhi told British parliamentarians that functioning microphones in the Indian Parliament are often silenced against the Opposition.


During an event organised by veteran Indian-origin Opposition Labour Party MP Virendra Sharma in the Grand Committee Room within the House of Commons in London, he used a faulty microphone in the room to make his point about what he described as a "stifling" of Opposition in India.


"Our mics are not out of order, they are functioning, but you still can't switch them on. That's happened to me a number of times while I am speaking," Gandhi told the gathering, in response to a question about sharing his experience of being a politician in India with his British counterparts.



"We simply cannot afford a planet that doesn't produce under democratic systems," the 52-year-old, who is on a week-long tour of the UK, had said.