New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- Female Congress MPs in the Lok Sabha petitioned Speaker Om Birla on Monday, asserting that under pressure from the BJP, to justify the "non-attendance" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he levelled serious accusations against them.

They implored the Speaker to serve as a neutral guardian of the Lower House. The letter to the Speaker follows days after Birla claimed in the House that he possessed "concrete information" that several Congress lawmakers would advance toward PM Modi's bench and perform "some unexpected act" as a consequence of which he had advised him not to visit the House to respond to the debate on the Motion of Thanks for the President's speech.

"We are being targeted simply because we have consistent...