I WILL NOT HOST SANSAD TV, SAYS SHASHI THAROOR
A day after Shiv Sena Member of Parliament Priyanka Chaturvedi quit her association with the Sansad TV, Congress MP in Lok Sabha Shashi Tharoor also announced to suspend his programme at the Parliament television channel to protest against the suspension of 12
MPs from Rajya Sabha. Mr Tharoor said he will not host his talk show “To The Point” for Sansad TV until the suspension of the Rajya Sabha MPs is revoked. “The prolonged suspension of 12 MPs from the Rajya Sabha, expelled in an arbitrary manner for actions committed during a previous session, has called into question the very assumption of a bipartisan spirit animating the work of Parliament. As an MP who has gone every morning to greet the protestors and express my solidarity with them, I am concerned that my continued involvement in hosting a show on Sansad TV would be seen as making me complicit in the undemocratic manner in which Parliamentary institutions are being run,” Mr Tharoor said in a statement.