Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday in a bilateral meeting with the Vice-President of the European Parliament, Nicola Beer, protested for raising India’s internal issues in EU’s Parliament.
“He insisted that every nation and Parliament is sovereign and their internal issues should not be discussed by others,” a statement from the Lok Sabha Secretariat said.
Though the statement didn’t make any reference to any particular internal issue, sources told The Hindu that Mr. Birla’s reference was to the July resolution of the EU Parliament that discussed the violence between Meitis and Kukis in Manipur. Then, India had said that the move by the EU Parliament reflected a “colonial mindset”.
