Constitutional functionaries, who are responsible for protecting Opposition members, have become a part of partisan politics, and there are attempts to convert Parliament into a platform for the ruling party, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, said in his opening remarks to the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Thursday.
Though Mr. Kharge didn’t name anyone, it was a clear reference to Rajya Sabha Chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, both of whom handed out a record number of suspensions in the winter session of Parliament.
They had also questioned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s filming Trinamool Congress member Kalyan Banerjee’s mimicry of Mr. Dhankhar.
