India, March 11 -- Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday took a swipe at Union minister KirenRijiju for quoting Jawaharlal Nehru during a debate on the resolution seeking Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's removal, saying those who criticise India's first prime minister day and night are now citing his remarks.

Intervening in the debate, Rijiju cited Nehru's remarks during the debate in 1954 on the resolution to remove then speaker GV Mavalankar.

"I would beg of hon. members sitting opposite, those who have signed it and those who, in duty bound, have supported it, to read that thing which they have signed. It is a vicious thing they have signed.

I doubt whether the persons have read it before they signed it. If they had read it, they...