Kangana Ranaut Claims Rahul Gandhi Either Comes High on Drugs or Alcohol To Parl, Demands Drug Test

New Delhi: Lok Sabha MP from Mandi Kangana Ranaut on Wednesday launched a pincer attack on the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.

Demanding a drug test for the Congress MP, Ranaut said, Gandhi either came to the Parliament high on drugs or alcohol after the latter used the 'chakravyuh' metaphor as a leitmotif to say that an atmosphere of fear pervaded the country.

Ranaut said, “Are we going to elect the PM looking at their age and gender? He (Rahul) has always tried to hurt the Constitution. Tomorrow he will say that a PM will be elected based on skin colour. He does not respect the democratic processes. He was saying yesterday that we are Shivji’s baraat and this is a chakravyuh, and he was talking about the competition between the two. I think he should be tested whether he consumes any drug, how he comes to the Parliament and the kind of nonsense things he says. I am a new Parliamentarian and I was shocked to see (how he behaves). Don’t you think a drug test should be conducted for such a person? I think it should happen because he attends the Parliament either under the influence of alcohol or drugs."

Gandhi also alleged that the budget's sole aim was to strengthen the framework of monopoly capital, political monopoly and the deep state.

Participating in the debate in the Lok Sabha on the Union Budget of 2024-25, Gandhi claimed the fear is spreading through a 'chakravyuh' with everybody trapped in it, including BJP MPs, farmers and workers.

"Thousands of years ago in Haryana, in Kurukshetra, six people killed a youth, Abhimanyu, in a 'chakravyuh'. A 'chakravyuh' has violence and fear. Abhimanyu was trapped and killed in the 'chakravyuh'," he said.

Gandhi's reference was to the Mahabharat legend according to which Abhimanyu was killed in a 'chakravyuh' -- a multi-tiered maze and formation -- in which he was trapped.

He said the 'chakravyuh' is also called a 'Padmavyūha' which is a multi-tiered formation that looks like a lotus (the BJP symbol).

"You build a 'chakravyuh', and we break the 'chakravyuh'," Gandhi said, asserting that the opposition would break this cycle by carrying out a caste census.

"In the 21st century, another 'chakravyuh' has been prepared, it is in the form of a lotus and the prime minister (Narendra Modi) wears the symbol on his chest. What was done with Abhinmanyu is being done with youth, women, farmers and MSMEs," he said.

The Congress leader said the 'chakravyuh' that has captured India has three forces -- the idea of monopoly capital and concentration of financial power; institutions and agencies such as the CBI, ED and IT department; and the political executive.

These three together are at the heart of the 'chakravyuh' and have devastated this country, Gandhi said.

"My expectation was that this budget would weaken this 'chakravyuh'. We expected that it would help farmers, labourers and small and medium businesses. But the sole aim of the business is to strengthen the framework of monopoly business, political monopoly and the deep state or the agencies," Gandhi said.

"This 'chakravyuh' attacked and destroyed the small and medium business -- this was done through demonetisation and tax terrorism. The budget did nothing to end this tax terrorism...the finance minister did not say a word on the paper leak," Gandhi said.

In his address, Gandhi said the INDIA bloc would ensure that farmers get the legal guarantee for MSP.

Gandhi said the middle class always listened to the prime minister and even clapped and switched on the lights of their phones when he asked them to during Covid. But now that class was turning towards the INDIA bloc having been disappointed by this government. (with PTI inputs)