No confidence motion: Rahul Gandhi, PM Modi embrace after a fiery session

New Delhi, July 20 The Lok Sabha on Friday witnessed a stormy, hostile mood as Prime Minister Narendra Modi-drove NDA government faced its first No Confidence Motion since 2014.

While hurling allegations, Congress president Rahul Gandhi blamed Prime Minister Modi for not looking at him. Be that as it may, in the midst of the energized air, Prime Minister Modi was considered grinning to be the Gandhi scion while he recorded allegations against the government.

In a much unexpected gesture, Gandhi in the wake of completion his discourse strolled up to the Prime Minister. They embraced each other, and as Gandhi was coming back to his seat, Prime Minister Modi was seen getting back to him back and they exchanged pleasantries. Thegestures seemed to facilitate the tempers.

The No Confidence Motion was moved by the Telegu Desam Party (TDP) over Andhra Pradesh Special Category status issue. TDP leader Jayadev Galla started the Lok Sabha procedures on the movement lashing out at BJP-drove Centre. He said that PM Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah's administration is an adventure of "empty promises".

As the proceedings continued, the Lok Sabha saw a stormy time the minute Gandhi began talking. Straightforwardly assaulting PM over the Rafale deal, demonetisation and other issues, he went ahead to reprimand the administration's disappointment in giving business and containing increment in petrol costs.

Gandhi's speech saw Treasury seats on feet, particularly when he talked on the Rafale bargain, taking the name of Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Gandhi denounced that Sitharaman misled the country about the mystery settlement with the Government of France.

"When I met the President of France and got some information about the mystery settlement, he denied about it. Nirmala Sitharaman misled the country under PM's weight on Rafale. Nirmalaji, please tell the nation who is being helped? Why was HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited expelled from the deal?" Gandhi said. He further accused that the deal was to favour a particular businessman.

Responding to Gandhi's allegations by name,a charged up Sitharaman clarified the position on the deal.

Gandhi's statement made the entire treasury to seat challenge with Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Ananth Kumar even quoting a rule that a member cannot make unsubstantiated and derogatory remarks in the House against some other part. In any case, unflinching Gandhi went ahead to assault Modi saying that PM isn't looking at him, and looking all over.