Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar expressed disappointment at the act of mocking him by senior Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee and the recording of this act by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
During a protest in front of the new Parliament building, Mr. Banerjee had mimicked Mr. Dhankhar when Mr. Gandhi was filming it in his mobile phone. Leader of the House and Union Minister Piyush Goyal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi condemned the act and said it is demeaning of not just the Chair of the House, but also the farming and Jat communities to which Mr. Dhankhar belongs. The Opposition is protesting in and outside the Houses demanding a statement by Home Minister Amit Shah on the incident of the breach of security in Lok Sabha.
In his brief statement, Mr. Dhankhar said the act was one of the lowest levels that the country had witnessed. Addressing senior Congress MP P. Chidambaram, he said: “Imagine what must be going through my heart when your senior leader videographs a Member of Parliament mocking the institution of Chairman, as an individual take on me.” Mr. Dhankhar and Mr. Banerjee’s party Trinamool Congress had engaged in a series of verbal volleys when the former was the Governor of West Bengal.
