Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharati threw Lok Sabha into a tizzy by reading out unsavoury portions from a book about Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi among others.

She was participating in the no-confidence motion debate and repeatedly tried to deflect attention to Madhya Pradesh, where she is leading the BJP in the state assembly election slated later this year.

The opposition Congress was on its feet protesting her reading from the book, which Bharati claimed was gifted to her and other MPs by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress leader Digvijay Singh.

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She quoted the book Hindu hone ka arth as saying that freedom fighters would be bewildered to see the Congress leaders paying obeisance at the feet of a foreigner. Those who fought against foreign rule, she added, must be saddened by it.

She also read from another portion which says Rajiv Gandhi came to power as a straight-forward person but started lying later.

When the Congress members objected to her act, the speaker said all allegations against individuals, if not authenticated properly, would be expunged from the proceedings of the House.

Bharati said the Congress leaders must have first learn to trust each other and nation's establishments before they presented the no-confidence motion.

"On what does it (Congress) have trust? The Congress has no trust in nation's democracy, example of it is the Emergency, and no trust in nation's social equality, example is the Shah Bano case, and Bharatiyata… Sonia's leadership is an example of it," Bharati said.

The Congress also has no trust on nation's traditions, law, and other systems, she alleged.

The Congress is now saying, claimed Bharati, they have no trust in India's military, which people trust to defend their life and land. She alleged the Congress does not trust the Central Bureau of Investigation too.

Bharati wound up with an appeal to people like Mulayam Singh Yadav, Laloo Prasad Yadav and their supporters, who oppose the Women's Reservation Bill, to allow the introduction of the Bill in Parliament.

Mulayam Singh Yadav responded by saying that he was not against 'beautiful sisters' coming into Parliament but they also wanted poor women from backward communities also to come to the Parliament.