The prime minister is now expected to speak on Thursday in the Rajya Sabha, where the debate on the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address has taken place without any disruption.
Recalling instances, he said there were several occasions when "fiction" was not allowed to be discussed.
The ambassador, though, admitted that the Communist Party of India received financial assistance from its Soviet counterpart.
The book had claimed that India was one of the countries "most successfully penetrated" by KGB and that the Kremlin spent a fortune trying to influence the press, police, ministers and the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
She has slammed the Opposition for disrupting Parliament.
Mitrokhin revelations: Congress, CPI dismiss Advani's demands
The Speaker ruled that these did not relate to the Union government, nor were they matters of recent occurence.
NDA to allow Parl proceedings from Monday if motion is accepted
Naidu said RSS was a committed, disciplined and dedicated organisation and BJP could not afford to lose its connection with it.
'But India, increasingly, is not that far behind, which is a story I never expected to tell.'
India is not making a choice of war over peace. Rather it is at war, a war thrust on it by a sick militaristic State, says Sankrant Sanu.
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