The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress faced off against each other on Wednesday over a mimicry of Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar by Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee, which was perceived as an insult to the Jat community.
On Tuesday, as the video of the act went viral on social media, Mr. Dhankhar referred to it in the Rajya Sabha. Addressing the Opposition benches, he said, “You [Congress] used the official Twitter handle of the spokesperson to demean me, insult me, insult my background as a farmer, my position as a Jat, insult my position as a Chairman.”
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Wednesday condemned the act. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, he said: “For the first time a farmer’s son of the Jat community has risen to occupy such a high constitutional office, but they [Opposition] have been insulting this constitutional position also.”
