Bengaluru, Feb. 9 -- Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address as "an act of cowardice," alleging that the Prime Minister deliberately avoided parliamentary accountability.

In a post on X, Siddaramaiah said that a Prime Minister who avoids Parliament also avoids accountability. "Prime Minister narendramodi 's silence in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address is an act of cowardice. For the first time in India's parliamentary history, this motion was passed without the Prime Minister replying. A Prime Minister who avoids Parliament avoids accountability," he s...