Lok Sabha member Karti P. Chidambaram and his family are being selectively targeted in the name of investigation, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Sunday in a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and urged Mr. Birla to protect the parliamentary privileges of opposition members.
The Congress leader also charged the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with taking away sensitive and confidential parliamentary papers from Mr. Karti and accused the government of trying to stifle the voice of the Opposition.
"A Member of Parliament is constitutionally conferred with certain parliamentary privileges so that he can discharge his parliamentary duties without any fear or favour from the government. However, during the present regime, the opposition members are being targeted and intimidated and their parliamentary privileges are being breached. In this regard, I may like to cite the case of Shri. Karti P. Chidambaram (M.P.). He and his family are being selectively targeted in the name of ‘so called’ raid and investigation," Mr. Chowdhury wrote in his letter.
