Hyderabad (Telangana): Rahul Gandhi has 'military phobia', said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader NV Subhash on Thursday, slamming the Congress leader for allegedly walking out of Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence after the committee chairman disallowed a discussion on border issues. While speaking to the media agencies, Subhash said that 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.
"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," he said. According to sources, Gandhi and other party leaders had on Wednesday, walked out of a meeting of Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence after their demand for a discussion on border issues along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) was not allowed by the Chairman.