Amid 'Modi-Adani Bhai' Slogans, PM's Savage Shayari. Thanks Oppn for Helping Lotus Bloom | WATCH

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi began addressing the Rajya Sabha, the Opposition began raising slogans of ‘Modi-Adani bhai bhai’. However, the PM remained undeterred and took a jibe at the protesting lawmakers with poetic lines.

“Keechad uske paas tha, mere paas gulaal. Jo jiske paas tha, diya usne woh uchaal (They had mud, I had colours. Whosoever had whatever they flung in the air),” PM Modi said, adding “jitna keechad uchaaloge, kamal utna hi khilega” (the more mud-slinging, the more number of lotus will bloom).

The prime minister was referring to Bharatiya Janata Party’s symbol, a lotus, that grows in mud.

Amid slogan shouting by MPs from TMC, Congress and other opposition parties from the Well of the House, Modi began replying to the debate on the motion thanking the President for her address to the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha at the start of the Budget Session, and accused the Congress of adopting only “tokenism” to solving problems the country faced.

Opposition parties used the debate on the motion to attack Modi and the government for aiding Adani’s phenomenal rise during the last few years.

In his reply, Modi recounted achievements of his governments – from eliminating waiting for getting cooking gas to opening bank accounts for everyone and providing electricity connections.

The effort was to create a brighter future and not look at political gains, he said.

“Some people’s behaviour and language are disappointing not just for the House but for the country,” he said in oblique reference to the allegations opposition parties levelled on him.

The debate on the motion of thanks to the President’s Address in Rajya Sabha concluded on Wednesday. President Droupadi Murmu had addressed the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on January 31, the first day of the Budget Session.

In her maiden address to the joint sitting of Parliament, Droupadi Murmu while touching upon several issues in her address, including defence, space, women empowerment, and the importance of public involvement during the ‘Amrit Kaal’ to build a developed India said that the country had a government that was “stable, fearless, decisive”, working for all classes without any discrimination and giving thrust to ‘virasat’ (heritage) as well as ‘vikas’ (development). Murmu spoke of the government’s relentless fight against corruption, the “biggest enemy of democracy and social justice”. However, the opposition criticised the President’s address.

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