NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla dismissed as non-issue Congress’s protests over a circular issued by Rajya Sabha secretriat forbidding protests, dharnas and religious ceremonies, saying the caution has been a consistent practice for more than a decade.
Birla said the circular has been a routine affair and has been issued every year since it was first issued in 2009 when Congress-led UPA was in power. “This is a routine matter and such circulars are issued before every session,” he said, urging political parties not to use routine Parliamentary information for creating news.
