New Delhi: Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday released two videos of the Lok Sabha ruckus on 4 February, questioning the conduct of Congress MPs and saying the situation could have turned extremely ugly if BJP MPs had not been restrained and women MPs had been allowed to confront them directly, PTI reported.
Posting on X, Rijiju said: “Congress Party is proud of the most degrading behavior by their MPs !! If we had not stopped all BJP MPs and allowed the Women MPs to confront Cong. MPs, it would have led to very ugly scene. We have very high consideration to protect the dignity & sanctity of Parliament.”
In a subsequent post, he stated, “Who can justify such behaviors from the Honb’le MPs? The direction from our leadership was very clear that we must maintain the dignity of the house and no BJP MP should get into physical confrontation
with the rude opposition MPs.”
BJP MPs wrote to Speaker Om Birla, accusing Opposition women MPs of surrounding the Prime Minister’s seat and later aggressively moving toward the Speaker’s chamber on 4 February. They called on the Speaker to take “the strongest possible action” against those involved in the alleged incident.
Women Congress MPs hit back. In a letter to Om Birla they alleged that the ruling party had compelled him to make “false, baseless, and defamatory” allegations against them.
On Thursday, Birla disclosed he had asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to enter the House to avoid any untoward situation, after receiving information that some Congress MPs might approach the Prime Minister’s seat and “resort to an unprecedented incident”.
Rijiju endorsed the complaint submitted by BJP women MPs to the speaker, accusing Congress MPs of overstepping parliamentary boundaries.
“The BJP MPs, especially the women MPs, have lodged a strong complaint to the Lok Sabha speaker against the behaviour of the Congress MPs. The Congress MPs crossed over to the Treasury side. They crossed the bench where the Prime Minister sits, and they went beyond towards the Treasury side, and they almost laid the siege of the entire area,” Rijiju stated.