Lok Sabha member Navneet Rana on Monday met Speaker Om Birla along with her husband and Maharashtra MLA Ravi Rana to share details about the couple’s arrest by the Maharashtra police and committed to deposing before the Parliament’s privileges committee and will give a written statement.
Ms. Rana and Mr. Ravi Rana met Mr. Birla at his official residence for 45 minutes, with the couple also expressing their wish to approach Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to raise the issue of their alleged ill-treatment by the Maharashtra authorities when the couple was in jail recently.
“Lok Sabha Speaker is the custodian of the MPs... I have appealed to him to ensure justice is delivered in our case and action should be taken against those who are accused. I explained to him the entire incident of my arrest. The Lok Sabha’s privilege committee will take up my complaints on May 23 and I will also give a written statement to the committee,” Ms. Rana, independent MP from Maharashtra, said