With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah present in the House, BJP members were enthusiastic in protesting any perceived slight to their leaders or criticism of the government. During Opposition leader Ghulam Nabi Azad's speech on the 'motion of thanks to the President's address', Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Vijay Goel got up to object.
Azad advised Goel that a minister managing parliamentary affairs shouldn't indulge in such behaviour. He recalled an occasion when former PM Atal Bihari