New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi today, March 16, met with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, requesting him to allow him time to speak about the allegations levelled against him by ruling party MPs in the parliament.“Four ministers of the government have levelled allegations against me in the House. I have the right to speak in the House and say what I have to say,” Gandhi said in a press conference today. BJP MPs have repeatedly brought up Gandhi’s statements abroad in multiple sessions of the parliament.To NDTV, Gandhi said that he had not given “any anti-India speeches”.Union ministers, including the defence minister Rajnath Singh, have demanded an apology from Gandhi for allegedly maligning India through his public statements on Indian democracy.Also read: What Rahul Gandhi Said in the UK and Why It Hit a Raw Nerve of the BJP’sA day ago, Congress’s leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had alleged that his microphone in the parliament has been muted for the last three days.Chowdhury had called this a “government-sponsored disruption in the House”.In a letter to Birla, Chowdhury had said that the disruptions had been “government-sponsored” and the result of a “well-hatched conspiracy”.“I am deeply disheartened to observe that ever since the House resumed after the break on March 13, 2023, there has been a Government-sponsored disruption in the House. It appears to me as if there is a well-hatched conspiracy on the part of the party in power to tarnish the image of an individual member of an Opposition Party (Shri Rahul Gandhi),” he wrote in it, according to Indian Express.In the letter, Chowdhury added that while ministers “vociferously” disrupt proceedings, opposition statements are not heard at all.“With a deep sense of displeasure, I would like to bring to your notice that the mike before my table has been muted for the past three days as a result of which I failed to articulate my views in protest to the frivolous and wild allegations against my party leader (Rahul Gandhi),” he said, according to Express.In a UK House of Commons event, Gandhi had said, “Our mics are not out of order, they are functioning, but you still cannot switch them on. That has happened to me a number of times while I am speaking.”