The Congress urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday not to regard an interaction of farmer leaders with the media after they met Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in the Parliament premises last week as a violation of decorum, and cited past instances of women filmstars and others interacting with reporters after the women's reservation bill was tabled in the House, reported news agency PTI.

In a letter to Birla, Congress general secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal said when Gandhi was speaking during a discussion on the Union Budget 2024-25 on July 29, he was told that the decorum of the institution of Parliament was violated when the farmers who had come to meet him spoke to the media.