'20-25 Congress MPs entered Lok Sabha Speaker's chamber, abused him': Kiren Rijiju's big charge

NEW DELHI: Union parliamentary affairs curate Kiren Rijiju connected Wednesday accused Congress MPs of storming into Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s enclosure and hurling abuses astatine him.“At slightest 20-25 Congress MPs entered the Lok Sabha Speaker's enclosure and abused him.

I was besides there. The Speaker is simply a precise brushed person, different strict actions would person been taken.

Senior Congress leaders, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and KC Venugopal, were besides contiguous inside, and they were encouraging them to fight,” Rijiju told reporters.

Rijiju alleged that the Congress MPs not lone misbehaved with the Speaker but besides defied parliamentary norms.“They went to the Speaker's enclosure and abused him, said atrocious things. Then the Speaker gave a ruling, which was not followed and past Rahul Gandhi said that helium does not request anyone's support to speak. He volition talk arsenic per his wish, without immoderate rules...

Unless support is fixed by the Chair, members cannot talk successful the House. Even the Prime Minister volition talk lone with the support of the Chair. Everyone speaks lone with permission,” helium added.The caller allegations travel amid an escalating standoff betwixt the authorities and the absorption successful the Parliament. On Tuesday, absorption parties submitted announcement to region Om Birla arsenic Lok Sabha Speaker, accusing him of functioning successful a “blatantly partisan” mode and demanding that helium recuse himself from presiding implicit the House until the contented is resolved.

Opposition leaders person besides accused Birla of making “false claims” against Congress MPs aft helium referred to definite “unexpected action” successful the Lok Sabha and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to travel to the House to reply to the Motion of Thanks connected the President’s Address.The BJP, however, powerfully criticised the opposition’s announcement against Birla, describing it arsenic an effort to undermine parliamentary institutions.On Tuesday, Rijiju claimed that the concern successful the Lok Sabha could person turned volatile if BJP MPs had been allowed to face Congress members connected the time the Prime Minister was scheduled to reply to the debate.He released video footage of the February 4 proceedings, which showed Opposition women MPs approaching treasury benches during heated exchanges. Rijiju questioned whether specified behaviour could beryllium justified and accused the Opposition of disrupting House proceedings successful an unprecedented manner.The curate claimed BJP and NDA MPs were “very angry” implicit the behaviour of Congress members but had exercised restraint.Parliament has been witnessing continuous disruptions since February 2 aft Congress person Rahul Gandhi was disallowed by the Chair from quoting an nonfiction based connected excerpts from erstwhile Army main M M Naravane’s "unpublished memoir".The chaos peaked connected February 4 erstwhile Prime Minister was incapable to reply to the Motion of Thanks owed to absorption protests. In a uncommon development, the Motion of Thanks was passed connected February 5 without the customary premier ministerial reply. The Speaker work retired the question and it was approved by dependable ballot amid sloganeering by Opposition MPs.