BJP attacks Congress over Renuka Chowdhury's conduct in RS

February 08, 2018 20:10

The BJP today accused the Congress of devaluing Parliament as it attacked the opposition party over its member Renuka Chowdhury's conduct in the Rajya Sabha yesterday.

BJP general secretary Bhupender Yadav hit back at the Congress following its members protests in the Rajya Sabha over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dig at Chowdhury in the House yesterday.

As she laughed loudly in the House, prompting its chairman Venkaiah Naidu to chide her, a smiling Modi had said Naidu should not act against her as he had the privilege of hearing such a laughter now after the tele serial Ramayan, which was telecast in 1980s.

Congress members claimed today his jibe was "derogatory".

Yadav told reporters that Chowdhury's uproarious laughter in the House "disrespected" parliamentary traditions.

The conduct of some Congress members in Parliament is in violation of parliamentary traditions and the party has been "devaluing" constitutional intuitions for some time.

The response of the Congress to this is wrong, he said.

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