Narendra Modi giving people reason to doubt him over Rafale, says HD Deve Gowda; urges PM to appear in Parliament

Bengaluru: Questioning the absence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Parliament during the Rafale debate, former prime minister HD Deve Gowda said that former has given people reason to doubt him and when there is a charge, he should come before the House. Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru on Saturday, JD(S) chief Deve Gowda said, “Why can’t the prime minister come to the House and speak? The defence minister argued well, but that’s a different matter. The charge is against the prime minister.” [caption id=“attachment_4455321” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of former prime minister HD Deve Gowda. Image courtesy: Y Maheswara Reddy[/caption] “In my view, be it the prime minister or any other leader, when there is a charge, he should come before the House. He has given the people the reason to doubt him. It is not a question of whether he is right or someone else is right. But the only problem is with the prime minister not coming to respond to the question.” He further advised Modi that “whenever such an allegation is made, he should be in the House and face it”. Asserting that there is a need to remind people of the decisions he had made during his tenure, Deve Gowda said, “In 10 months as the prime minister, I cleared Lokpal. It included the prime minister in its ambit.”