Hyderabad:  Rahul Gandhi has 'military phobia', said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader NV Subhash on Thursday. The statement comes after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, along with other party MPs, Wednesday walked out of a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, apparently because he was “not allowed to speak” on the border situation with China. 

NV Subhash went on to say: “Gandhi had not attended a single meet of the Parliament Defence panel and by skipping the meeting, he was degrading the morale of the country's defence personnel,” adding that "Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's deliberate boycott of the Parliament's Standing Committee meeting is conspicuous. He is degrading the morale of the Defense personnel. He has not attended the Defence panel of Parliament meet a single time. It shows he might have a 'military phobia' or some other thing."

"Rahul Gandhi should know the purpose of the meeting before staging a walk-out. Being a leader of the Congress party, he has to attend the meeting on behalf of the Army personnel to discuss and finalise certain things," he said. The BJP leader added, "People should know why Rahul Gandhi is deliberately avoiding standing panel meetings of the Parliament and he should clarify to the people. He is going to the subject beyond the meeting agenda and it is an attempt to discourage the defence personnel."

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