NEW DELHI: Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday launched a video clip that he claimed was recorded by a Congress MP contained in the chamber of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.Reiterating earlier allegations, Rijiju accused Congress MPs of barging into the Speaker’s chamber, misbehaving with him and utilizing abusive language.
“That is the unlawful video clip taken by a Congress MP when 20-25 Congress MPs entered the Chamber of Hon’ble Speaker, abused him and threatened Honb’le Prime Minister. Our occasion believes in debate & dialogue and by no means encourage MPs to threaten bodily,” Rijiju mentioned in a put up on X.The comment comes a day after Rijiju remarks from a day earlier, when he alleged {that a} group of Congress MPs had entered the Speaker’s chamber and behaved in an unruly method.“A minimum of 20-25 Congress MPs entered the Lok Sabha Speaker’s chamber and abused him. I used to be additionally there. The Speaker is a really delicate particular person, in any other case strict actions would have been taken. Senior Congress leaders, together with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and KC Venugopal, had been additionally current inside, and so they had been encouraging them to struggle,” Rijiju advised reporters.“They went to the Speaker’s chamber and abused him, mentioned dangerous issues. Then the Speaker gave a ruling, which was not adopted after which Rahul Gandhi mentioned that he doesn’t want anybody’s permission to talk. He’ll converse as per his want, with none guidelines… Except permission is given by the Chair, members can’t converse within the Home. Even the Prime Minister will converse solely with the permission of the Chair. Everybody speaks solely with permission,” he added.The allegations have surfaced amid a deepening confrontation between the federal government and the opposition in Parliament. Earlier this week, opposition events submitted a discover searching for the removing of Om Birla as Lok Sabha Speaker, accusing him of appearing in a “blatantly partisan” method. Opposition leaders have additionally alleged that Birla made “false claims” in opposition to Congress MPs after he referred to sure “sudden motion” within the Lok Sabha and requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to not come to the Home to answer to the Movement of Thanks on the President’s Handle.The BJP has strongly rejected the opposition’s transfer in opposition to the Speaker, calling it an try to weaken parliamentary establishments.Earlier, Rijiju had claimed that tensions within the Lok Sabha might have spiralled additional if BJP MPs had confronted Congress members on the day the Prime Minister was scheduled to reply to the talk.He additionally shared video footage from the February 4 proceedings, which confirmed girls MPs from the Opposition transferring in direction of the treasury benches throughout heated exchanges. Rijiju questioned the conduct and accused the opposition of disrupting parliamentary proceedings in an unprecedented method.In response to the minister, BJP and NDA MPs had been “very offended” over the behaviour of Congress members however selected to keep up restraint.Parliament has confronted a number of disruptionssince February 2 after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was prevented by the Chair from quoting an article based mostly on excerpts from former Military chief M M Naravane’s “unpublished memoir”.The state of affairs escalated on February 4, when Prime Minister was unable to answer to the Movement of Thanks amid opposition protests. The movement was handed on February 5 with out the customary prime ministerial reply. The Speaker learn out the movement, which was accepted by voice vote amid continued sloganeering by Opposition MPs.
