New Delhi: Eight opposition MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (February 3) following an uproar after leader of opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi was stopped from speaking during the discussion on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address.The suspension came minutes after Gandhi alleged outside parliament that he was not being allowed to speak in the House and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “compromised”. Gandhi also said that the India and US trade deal had been reached due to two pressure points on Modi – the case against billionaire Gautam Adani in the US and the revelations in the Epstein files that have not yet been made public.When Gandhi resumed his reply to the Motion on Tuesday afternoon, he began by saying that he had authenticated The Caravan article on former Army chief Gen M.M. Naravane’s unpublished memoir, which included excerpts from the book. While Gandhi sought to speak without directly quoting the article, Telugu Desam Party MP Krishna Prasad Tenneti objected and moved on to call the next speaker. The House was adjourned till 3 pm as opposition members were seen raising slogans in protest and throwing papers. PM Modi is Compromised.PM is too afraid to let me speak in Parliament about Naravane, Epstein Files and how he has surrendered on Tariffs. pic.twitter.com/V1J6yxZDM2— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) February 3, 2026Outside the parliament, Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being “compromised” and said that the “balloon of his image that has been created with thousands of crores can burst.”“Modi ji is scared. The trade deal that was stuck for four months, nothing changed, but for some reason that I know and Modi ji knows, he signed the deal last evening. There is immense pressure on Narendra Modi ji. The balloon of the Narendra Modi Ji image, created with thousands of crores, can burst,” said Gandhi to reporters. “The issue is not Naravane’s statement. This is a side show. He also knows this, and so do I. The main thing is that our Prime Minister has been compromised. The people of India will have to think who has done it and why. But for the first time in history, the leader of opposition has been stopped from speaking after the Presidential address. “The farmers of India must understand that in this trade deal, Narendra Modi has sold off your labour and blood and sweat. And that’s because he is compromised now. Not just you, the entire country has been sold. That’s why I am not being allowed to speak there (inside the House),” he said.“Narendra Modi is scared. Because the people who made his image have started to burst it. There is one case against Adani in the US. That case targets not Adani but Modi’s financial structure. The other is the Epstein files. There is more to [it] which has not been released yet. This is why under this pressure, of what is there in these files, and the case against Adani which is BJP and Modi’s financial structure are pressure points. The country must understand that the Prime Minister is compromised.”House adjourned for the dayWhen the House resumed proceedings at 3 pm, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Dilip Saikia, who was presiding as the Chair, named 8 MPs. Union Parliamentary Affairs minister Kiren Rijiju then moved a motion for Congress MPs Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Hibi Eden, Dean Kuriakose, Prashant Padole, C. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Manickam Tagore and CPI(M) MP S. Venkatesan to be suspended. The motion was accepted by a voice vote and the House adjourned for the day.Earlier on Monday, the Lok Sabha saw a huge uproar from the Treasury benches after Gandhi raised Naravane’s yet-unreleased memoir which contains a series of revelations, including the former Army chief detailing how he was handed a “hot potato” in dealing with Chinese troop movement in August 2020. While Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla cited Rule 349 to bar him from quoting the article which included excerpts from the book, Gandhi on Tuesday authenticated the article on the floor of the House.When Gandhi sought to speak again, Rijiju objected and said that the book cannot be referred to despite the authentication.“As I said yesterday, a very important matter in the President’s speech is the matter of national security and our relationship between us and the Chinese and the Pakistanis. There is a very important matter that is quoted inside this article that I have authenticated which speaks about the reaction of the Prime Minister,” said Gandhi.Tenneti, who was presiding over the House, asked Gandhi to restrict himself to the President’s speech.“Let us clear the confusion. Today also I have requested K.C. Venugopal and Gaurav Gogoi. We are patiently waiting to listen to the leader of the opposition. The paper he has authenticated is on the table of the house. But when ruling has been given he cannot be quoting the same matter again in the pretext of making a reference indirectly. He cannot refer to the same matter. Please avoid referring to a matter which is settled,” said Rijiju.The treasury benches erupted in protest as Gandhi sought to speak on the “direction in which India has to move” and said that the “main issue in international affairs is the conflict between China and the United States”.“All I am saying is I want to make a statement on what happened between China and India and how our Prime Minister reacted to it. Why am I being stopped? In Ladakh, there was a conflict, our soldiers were killed,” said Gandhi.As treasury benches protested again, Tenneti said that he had requested Gandhi to speak on the speech of the President and then moved on to other speakers. Opposition MPs then rose in protest and were seen throwing papers, following which they were suspended and the House adjourned.