NEW DELHI: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Thursday submitted a privilege notice to the Lok Sabha secretariat against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of attempting to “incite” MPs and people at large through his remarks during the debate in the House on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address.
Noting that while every MP has a constitutional right to express his views, he said it is also one of the foremost duties of every member to maintain decency and should not say anything that would lower the dignity of Parliament. He categorised Rahul’s remarks as “contempt of the House”.
“I have submitted a privilege notice to the Lok Sabha secretariat against Gandhi for his comments relating to the ‘Union and its Territories’,” Dubey told the media.
The notice said, “In his speech, he has uttered that ‘India is described as a Union of States and India is not described as a Nation. He has further correlated this with making a hollow, baseless and childish prophecy that the people of Tamil Nadu, etc., would never allow themselves to be ruled by the present Government/Party’”.
“These utterances of Rahul Gandhi is an attempt to ‘hint’ and ‘incite’ the other Members of Parliament and also the citizens of our ‘Nation’, by means of the live telecast, that any state could easily be separated from our ‘Nation’ if they do not want to be ruled by a specific political party and no new state and/or alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing states could be effected in any manner in view of the fact that our Country came to existence by means of a ‘negotiation’ between and amongst various States,” it said.
Calling Rahul Gandhi a “script reader” and a “Drawing Room Politician”, Dubey said it appears that he has even not read the Preamble of the Constitution, which unambiguously states that “We, the People of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic”.
Dubey also requested Speaker About Birla to expunge the related portion from Rahul’s speech during the debate.
Rahul, in a veiled dig at PM Narendra Modi, had said Congress smashed the idea of a King in 1947, but now it has come back and the ruling dispensation had created two Indias — one for the poor and the other for the rich.
Noting that while every MP has a constitutional right to express his views, he said it is also one of the foremost duties of every member to maintain decency and should not say anything that would lower the dignity of Parliament. He categorised Rahul’s remarks as “contempt of the House”.
“I have submitted a privilege notice to the Lok Sabha secretariat against Gandhi for his comments relating to the ‘Union and its Territories’,” Dubey told the media.
The notice said, “In his speech, he has uttered that ‘India is described as a Union of States and India is not described as a Nation. He has further correlated this with making a hollow, baseless and childish prophecy that the people of Tamil Nadu, etc., would never allow themselves to be ruled by the present Government/Party’”.
“These utterances of Rahul Gandhi is an attempt to ‘hint’ and ‘incite’ the other Members of Parliament and also the citizens of our ‘Nation’, by means of the live telecast, that any state could easily be separated from our ‘Nation’ if they do not want to be ruled by a specific political party and no new state and/or alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing states could be effected in any manner in view of the fact that our Country came to existence by means of a ‘negotiation’ between and amongst various States,” it said.
Calling Rahul Gandhi a “script reader” and a “Drawing Room Politician”, Dubey said it appears that he has even not read the Preamble of the Constitution, which unambiguously states that “We, the People of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic”.
Dubey also requested Speaker About Birla to expunge the related portion from Rahul’s speech during the debate.
Rahul, in a veiled dig at PM Narendra Modi, had said Congress smashed the idea of a King in 1947, but now it has come back and the ruling dispensation had created two Indias — one for the poor and the other for the rich.
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