India, May 19 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent Norway appearance and the alleged lack of space for media questions from the press sparked a wave of reactions, including a Norwegian journalist's viral intervention, the Indian foreign ministry's response, and Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi's criticism.

Helle Lyng, a journalist who writes for the Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen, shared a video on her X handle on Monday of PM Modi exiting the joint press statement venue with his Norway counterpart.

"Primeminister of India, Narendra Modi, would not take my question, I was not expecting him to," she said in the post, sharing the video in which a woman can be heard saying loudly, "Why don't you take some questions from the freest press ...