Who said you can’t say 'Vande Mataram', 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' in LS? asks Om Birla

Jun 20, 2019

New Delhi, June 20 (ANI): Reacting on the question over slogans raised by members in Lok Sabha during oath taking ceremony, newly-elected LS speaker Om Birla said, “Who said you cannot say 'Vande Mataram' and 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' in Lok Sabha? “There is no challenge in running the house. We will run the house by keeping every party leader and political parties into complete confidence”, he further added. On the second day of oath-taking by the newly-elected members of the Lok Sabha saw heated exchanges and tit-for-tat slogans shouting as some of the senior-most opposition leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Mulayam Singh and Akhilesh Yadav took oath as MPs.