The government on Tuesday termed suspended TMC member Kalyan Banerjee’s act of mimicking Rajya Sabha chairman and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s act of filming the mockery an “insult of the constitutional post” and an expression of “complete lack of decency.”
Earlier, Dhankhar took strong exception to the development in Rajya Sabha which saw five adjournments over Opposition’s protests for Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement on December 13 Lok Sabha security breach.
“Shameful, ridiculous, unacceptable that an MP is mocking, and a second MP is videographing that incident…,” Dhankhar said when the RS briefly resumed after an adjournment this morning.
Pointing to Congress leader P Chidambaram, Dhankhar said, “Imagine what must be going through my heart when your senior leader videographs an MP mocking the Institution of Chairman, as an individual take on me…The Institution of Chairman has been ravaged.” Further Dhankhar added, “On Instagram, your (Congress) party puts a video which was withdrawn later. That was a shame to me. You used the official Twitter handle to insult me, insult my background as a farmer, my position as a Jat, as a Chairman.”
