India, July 30 -- Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge has raised questions on union home minister Amit Shah's silence on the police crackdown on CJP's protest. Speaking in the upper house after the anti-paper leak bill was tabled, the Congress MP also sought answers from Shah and PM Modi over their absence from the parliament session.

While Kharge addressed the house, he questioned if someone had "stitched" the home minister's mouth due to his silence on the security crackdown on protestors during the July 20 'Chalo Sansad' march held by the Cockroach Janta Party.

"You are the home minister. This was happening in Delhi. And yet despite all this happening, you did not open your mouth. Has someone stitched your mouth shut?...