India, Oct. 9 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday lashed out at Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over his response to SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk's "Ambani" post on Starlink operations in India, saying spectrum allocation would be carried out strictly in accordance with the law and without discrimination.

BJP leader Ram Madhav said India was not a "banana republic", and that companies such as Jio, Airtel and Starlink were also waiting for spectrum allocation.

"The whole country would like to know what happened overnight. He (Gandhi) should explain to the country. As far as the spectrum issue is concerned, we have seen that under the UPA government, their leaders were involved in spectrum-related corruption c...