One word of the Prime Minister's speech was removed from the parliamentary proceedings

New Delhi, Feb 8, 2020, Saturday

A word was cut from the speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in parliamentary proceedings, thanking the President's address to both Houses of Parliament earlier in the budget session of Parliament.

The move was taken at the suggestion of Rajya Sabha Speaker Venkaiah Naidu. This is the second consecutive year since 2014 that a word has been removed from the Prime Minister's speech.

Earlier, a word of veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad's speech was also removed from the parliamentary proceedings.

A spokesperson for the Rajya Sabha Secretariat said that in a speech made to the Prime Minister on the evening of February 6, the Prime Minister uttered an unconstitutional word that Congress should change its stance on the National Register of Citizens, which the Speaker of the Rajya Sabha had directed to be removed.

Similarly, the Speaker of the Opposition Leader also directed to cancel one word of the speech of Congress Ghulam Nabi Azad.

There is usually no occurrence of a word or phrase being removed from the Prime Minister's speech. But in 2018, the Prime Minister, who had uttered some words in Parliament criticizing Congress leader BK Hariprasad, also had to be removed from parliamentary proceedings.

Earlier in 2013, during the riots between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and opposition leader Arun Jaitley, the words that the Prime Minister uttered had to be removed from the parliamentary proceedings. If something goes awry, it will have to be chaired by the house that does not get into parliamentary proceedings.