As Rahul continued his magician analogy, clearly aimed at the Prime Minister, the ruling party protested and disrupted the proceedings. Amid the uproar, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh demanded that Rahul be asked to apologize for his “derogatory remarks”.President Om Birla asked Rahul not to deviate from the topic, following which Congress officials demanded that he be allowed to continue in the post.Rahul said, “I remember when I was a little boy, I was afraid of the dark. We had a big dog that would often attack my sister and me. One day, my grandmother came to know about it… She took me to the garden, left me there and said, ‘Don’t be afraid.’ I watched her walk away and I didn’t have the courage to tell her that I didn’t want to be there. Those few minutes felt like hours to me. I imagined snakes, dogs… everything I was afraid of.““My grandmother came back and asked, ‘What are you afraid of?’ I said, ‘I’m afraid of that dog; I am afraid of everything. ‘You’re not afraid of dogs, bats or the dark,’ she said. You are afraid of your mind, your imagination and your ideas,” Rahul said as the Speaker looked confused.Birla pressed Rahul to get back on topic, but he was not backing down: “Then he said to me, ‘You should not be afraid of the dark, because the truth often lies in the darkness. If you do not have the courage to face your fear, you will never be able to understand the truth or fight for it.'”Rahul did not stop here. He said, “The truth is that the magician has been caught – the magician of Balakot; the magician of demonetization; and the magician of Operation Sindoor.”