The ongoing face-off in Parliament between the Speaker and senior ministers on the Treasury benches on one side and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on the other is ungainly. Excerpts are already in the public domain, details about purported phone calls with the Defence Minister in circulation since December 2023. The government’s argument that General M M Naravane’s Four Stars of Destiny is unpublished is specious, its approval is pending. That said, the drama does not cast a flattering light on Congress and Rahul Gandhi. To be sure, as LoP, Gandhi can, and must, ask questions and demand answers from the government on its navigation of fraught circumstances, whether it be the India-China stand-off or the India-US deal more recently.

Source: Indian Express February 05, 2026 13:52 UTC