By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday wrote to Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, inquiring for him to expunge the remarks made by means of Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal on Sonia Gandhi within the Space.
Kharge additionally demanded that the ministers must comfortable their apology for violating the conventions of the Space.
His letter got here an afternoon after Sitharaman and Goyal attacked Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for his “rashtrapatni” statement whilst relating to President Droupadi Murmu.
Each the ministers additionally hit out at Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and demanded an apology from her.
In his letter, Kharge stated as consistent with Parliamentary practices and conventions important remarks must now not be made at the different Space or contributors of the opposite Space.
He additionally cited a ruling made by means of former RS Chairman R Venkataraman on April 15, 1987, by which he seen that “Nobody who isn’t a member of this Space may also be referred to within the Space in a derogatory method or in some other manner affecting his popularity”.
The senior Congress chief stated even the query of privilege can’t be raised at once in a single space in opposition to contributors of the opposite Space.
On this regard, he stated, a process has been laid down according to a file of Joint Sitting of Committees of Privileges of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha which used to be offered to each Homes on August 23, 1954 and later followed by means of the Homes in December, 1954.
“As consistent with this process, when a query of breach of privilege or contempt of the Home is raised in both of the Space by which a member, officer or servant of the opposite Home is concerned, the process adopted is that the Presiding Officer of the Space by which the query of privilege is raised, refers the case to the Presiding Officer of the opposite Space”, Kharge stated.
He stated he discussed this process to emphasize the sanctity of sovereignty of each and every Space of Parliament and its contributors.
“Therefore bringing up and making remarks in regard to a member of the Decrease Space within the Higher Home is a gross violation of the time-honoured conventions. Useless to say, as Chairman of this august Space, your excellent self would respect the desire for adherence to well-established Parliamentary conventions and practices,” he stated.
“In view of my aforementioned submissions, I request you to kindly expunge the remarks made by means of Sitharaman and Goyal vis-a-vis Smt Sonia Gandhi within the Space the previous day, 28 July, 2022. I additionally request that they comfortable their apology for his or her violation of sacrosanct conventions of the Space,” Kharge stated in his letter.
On Thursday, the row over Chowdhury’s “rashtrapatni” statement escalated with the opposition birthday party accusing BJP MPs of subjecting its president to “brutal heckling, verbal attack and bodily intimidation” within the Lok Sabha.
Hard an apology from the Congress president, the finance minister had stated Sonia Gandhi appointed Chowdhury because the chief in Lok Sabha to talk and he had insulted the President.
NEW DELHI: Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday wrote to Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, inquiring for him to expunge the remarks made by means of Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal on Sonia Gandhi within the Space.
Kharge additionally demanded that the ministers must comfortable their apology for violating the conventions of the Space.
His letter got here an afternoon after Sitharaman and Goyal attacked Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for his “rashtrapatni” statement whilst relating to President Droupadi Murmu.
Each the ministers additionally hit out at Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and demanded an apology from her.
In his letter, Kharge stated as consistent with Parliamentary practices and conventions important remarks must now not be made at the different Space or contributors of the opposite Space.
He additionally cited a ruling made by means of former RS Chairman R Venkataraman on April 15, 1987, by which he seen that “Nobody who isn’t a member of this Space may also be referred to within the Space in a derogatory method or in some other manner affecting his popularity”.
The senior Congress chief stated even the query of privilege can’t be raised at once in a single space in opposition to contributors of the opposite Space.
On this regard, he stated, a process has been laid down according to a file of Joint Sitting of Committees of Privileges of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha which used to be offered to each Homes on August 23, 1954 and later followed by means of the Homes in December, 1954.
“As consistent with this process, when a query of breach of privilege or contempt of the Home is raised in both of the Space by which a member, officer or servant of the opposite Home is concerned, the process adopted is that the Presiding Officer of the Space by which the query of privilege is raised, refers the case to the Presiding Officer of the opposite Space”, Kharge stated.
He stated he discussed this process to emphasize the sanctity of sovereignty of each and every Space of Parliament and its contributors.
“Therefore bringing up and making remarks in regard to a member of the Decrease Space within the Higher Home is a gross violation of the time-honoured conventions. Useless to say, as Chairman of this august Space, your excellent self would respect the desire for adherence to well-established Parliamentary conventions and practices,” he stated.
“In view of my aforementioned submissions, I request you to kindly expunge the remarks made by means of Sitharaman and Goyal vis-a-vis Smt Sonia Gandhi within the Space the previous day, 28 July, 2022. I additionally request that they comfortable their apology for his or her violation of sacrosanct conventions of the Space,” Kharge stated in his letter.
On Thursday, the row over Chowdhury’s “rashtrapatni” statement escalated with the opposition birthday party accusing BJP MPs of subjecting its president to “brutal heckling, verbal attack and bodily intimidation” within the Lok Sabha.
Hard an apology from the Congress president, the finance minister had stated Sonia Gandhi appointed Chowdhury because the chief in Lok Sabha to talk and he had insulted the President.
