Sansad TV focused ‘71% of the time’ on LS Speaker during Rahul Gandhi’s speech on Manipur: Congress

This gets even worse!@RahulGandhi spoke on Manipur for 15 min 42 seconds.

During which, Sansad TV’s camera focused on the Speaker Om Birla for 11 min 08 seconds i.e. 71% of the time.

Sansad TV showed @RahulGandhi on video for only 4 min 34 seconds while he spoke on Manipur.

— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) August 9, 2023

Ramesh further alleged, “This gets even worse! Rahul Gandhi spoke on Manipur for 15 min 42 seconds. During which, Sansad TV’s camera focused on the Speaker Om Birla for 11 min 08 seconds i.e. 71% of the time. Sansad TV showed Rahul Gandhi on video for only 4 min 34 seconds while he spoke on Manipur.”

During his speech, Gandhi launched a scathing attack on PM Modi and the BJP government over their handling of the Manipur crisis, which has left over 140 people dead and thousands displaced. Gandhi called for the deployment of the Army, which he says can bring peace to the state.

The Congress leader also slammed PM Modi over the recent clashes in Haryana’s Nuh, saying “from Manipur to Nuh, you have set the entire country on fire.”

This was Gandhi’s first speech in Parliament after the Lok Sabha Secretariat on Monday had cleared his return days after the Supreme Court stayed his conviction in a 2019 criminal defamation case over his remarks on the ‘Modi’ surname. Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as an MP on March 23 this year after he was convicted by a Gujarat court in the defamation case.