NAIDU SENDS BJP PRIVILEGE NOTICE AGAINST RAHUL TO LS SPEAKER
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday forwarded to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan a privilege motion against Congress president Rahul Gandhi for allegedly mocking finance minister Arun Jaitley.BJP MP Bhupendra Yadav had on December 28 submitted a privilege notice under Rule 187, alleging that Gandhi had “intentionally, maliciously and disrespectfully twisted” the name of Leader of the House and Arun Jaitley in a tweet.
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday forwarded to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan a privilege motion against Congress president Rahul Gandhi for allegedly mocking finance minister Arun Jaitley.
BJP MP Bhupendra Yadav had on December 28 submitted a privilege notice under Rule 187, alleging that Gandhi had “intentionally, maliciously and disrespectfully twisted” Jaitley’s name in a tweet.
In the tweet, Gandhi had questioned Jaitley’s claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “did not question” his predecessor Dr Manmohan Singh’s commitment to the nation when he accused him of conspiring with Pakistan to affect the outcome of the Gujarat elections.
He spelt the finance minister’s surname differently while thanking him “for reminding India that our PM never means what he says or says what he means”.
“Dear Mr Jaitlie — thank you for reminding India that our PM never means what he says or says what he means. #BJPLies,” Gandhi said, while putting out a video of the prime minister’s speech against his predecessor and Jaitley’s remarks made in Rajya Sabha.
Naidu had rebuked Congress for demanding an apology from Modi for his controversial remark.