Making things appear pretty bad for the ruling dispensation and especially for Modi; Rahul Gandhi left people guessing after mentioning in his speech the 'Number 16' riddle.
The social media quickly erupted in speculation over what exactly the Congress leader was hinting at.
It could possibly be a 16-minute video expose to an international scandal to which scores of rich and the powerful have been linked to.
"Yesterday, I was watching the Prime Minister speak. Low energy, broken. Nothing, nothing transmitting," Rahul Gandhi said.
The LoP then leader said he noticed that it was April 16.
"He [Modi] was not able to engage because clearly trying to pass this bill was a mistake, because everybody knew that wasn't going to pass panic reaction," he said.
"So I was watching him, and I noticed on my phone sixteenth of April. And I was like, 'My God, how crazy. That's the number. Sixteen!
This sixteen number, this is the number. The whole answer to the riddle is in the number sixteen. Everything is in the number sixteen," he said.
The Congress' official Twitter (X) handle dropped almost a clear hint.
It said, "Sixteen sounds a lot like Epstein, doesn't it?"
All these may not form part of parliamentary practice; but this is perhaps the second time since 2019 Rahul has sought to embarrass PM Modi big time.
Various allegataions made from time to time notwithstanding.
In 2019 on the day No Trust motion was taken up against Modi 1.0 Govt; Rahul had surprised all and sundry by embracing Modi in Lok Sabha.
The Prime Minister was furious about the gesture and later Rajnath Singh and the then Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had slammed Rahul's conduct in the House.
Dr Farooq Abdullah had tried to defend Rahul and to that Sumitra Mahajan said - "All these cannot be done in the House ... Rahul unke ghar jae aur galey lagey (Rahul could go to PM's House and give him the bear hug)".
Late night replying to the marathon debate; PM Modi mimicked Rahul a number of times and sounded the displeasure. He said Rahul was actually behaving as a dynast with a sense of entitlement and he wanted me to 'get from the PM's chair'.
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