Rahul Gandhi's second intervention in three days in LS

April 22, 2015 12:17

Rahul Gandhi speaks in Lok Sabha, for the second time in three days, on net neutrality.

He begins by saying that Obama praised Narendra Modi, before moving on to net neutrality.

"It's a complicated term, and our youth should have free internet. The government plans to sell off internet and hand it over to the corporates.

"People are demanding on FB, everywhere, they are in support of free internet, but this government wants to carve it out to corporates,' he said, and demanded that the TRAI paper on net neutrality be cancelled.

Clearly, it seemed he was out of his depth discussing the issue, and spoke in English.

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan intervened to say that the issue has been discussed before (probably when Gandhi was away on a sabbatical), but he could speak on it.

Responding to him, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government has never and will never be pressurised by corporates.

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