New Delhi: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Thursday (February 12) proposed a substantive motion in the Lok Sabha on what he termed as leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi’s intent to ‘fragment’ India.The MP for Godda, Jharkhand also sought a discussion via the motion around his assertion that Gandhi’s membership in the Lok Sabha ought to be revoked and he be barred from contesting elections for life.Stating that Gandhi behaves like an “urban Naxal”, Dubey added that the leader of opposition “has relations” with billionaire George Soros’s “foundation” and the Ford Foundation. Gandhi, he continued, had made trips abroad “solely with traitors” and “makes allegations against” the constitution in addition to institutions such as the Election Commission, Supreme Court and Lok Sabha speaker.Amid a din from the opposition benches Dubey went on to say that Gandhi wants to fragment India – he used the Hindi phrase tukde tukde – after which chair Krishna Prasad Tenneti adjourned the House until Friday morning.The Indian Express cited his notice as calling Gandhi a key member of a ‘thuggery gang to destabilise India from within’. The leader of opposition’s “relentless and well-choreographed actions” inside and outside parliament “are inimical to our country”, Dubey added, citing his “duty of upholding the unity, integrity and sovereignty” of India in making the proposal.Later, speaking to ANI outside parliament, Dubey also said that Gandhi has links with USAID and accused him of hurting soldiers’ morale.Speaking to the Express, Congress MP and general secretary K.C. Venugopal said that Dubey was “diverting attention” from what Gandhi had said in the House as part of the BJP’s “self-defence strategy”.Dubey’s proposal comes a day after Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju said a notice alleging breach of privilege by Gandhi would be filed with the speaker in light of the leader of opposition’s “baseless” remarks in the Lok Sabha that the Modi government “sold” Indian interests by agreeing to the trade framework with Washington and referring to Union minister Hardeep Puri’s now-publicised correspondence with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein without giving prior notice.However, the Godda MP’s submission is that of a substantive motion, which is an independent proposal that is drafted in such a manner as to be able to express a collective decision of the House.Earlier, Gandhi had repeatedly attempted to cite excerpts from General M.M. Naravane’s yet-to-be-greenlit memoir – in which the former Army chief wrote that Prime Minister Narendra Modi passed the buck to him in the face of Chinese advances in eastern Ladakh in August 2020 – in the House, kicking up a political storm.George Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist who has been critical of the Modi government and whom the BJP and its leaders have in turn criticised but also accused of undermining the government.