Stage is set for a stormy restart to the remainder of the Budget Session with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today taking veiled jibes at opposition Congress and fully backing Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla ahead of the Monday no-trust vote against him.”Om Birla is as good a Lok Sabha presiding officer as he is a parliamentarian. He is fully committed to the Constitution and has complete faith in parliamentary procedures,” Modi said in the wake of the Lok Sabha preparing to take up the opposition backed no confidence motion seeking to remove Birla.The motion was brought in the first half of the Budget session on grounds that Birla prevented leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi from speaking in the House. The PM today threw his weight behind Birla saying the Speaker is not a part of any political party now and is beyond party politics of the ruling and opposition camps.”When I see the Speaker in Parliament I feel these values that he has imbibed — of taking everyone along as head of the Lok Sabha — stem from the fact that he comes from the city of education Kota,” Modi said adding that Birla handles all MPs well, their sentiments, their urges well.”He is a Speaker who habitually respects all MPs. The Speaker also handles arrogant, anarchist students from famous families who sometimes come and spread chaos, to which they are habituated. He never insults anyone. He swallows even the harshness of some and is always smiling,” PM Modi said, adding that Birla is “much loved by everyone in the House of the People.”


