M Venugopal Reddy, the TDP MP from Seemandhra told Rediff.com that Jairam Ramesh, Rajiv Shukla and Kamal Nath were planting stories against him.

He said he believes in Parliamentary democracy and would never ever carry a knife inside the Lok Sabha. He said he was carrying a broken mike and that's being dubbed as knife because Congress leaders were frightened. He told Rediff.com that he felt ashamed that MPs were told to do a marshall's job.