RS seat change bid to humiliate me: Raut

November 20, 2019 15:18

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut launched a strident attack on the BJP-led NDA and shot off a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Nadu saying moving him to the 5th row in Parliament is an attempt to humiliate him and the party.

Raut in the letter says, "I think that this decision was taken by someone deliberately to hurt the sentiments of Shiv Sena Party and to suppress our voice.

"I may remind you that even when NDA was in Opposition, I was allotted a 3rd row seat in the House in view of my seniority in Rajya Sabha, but now, what I feel, it is clearly shows that my seat has been allotted in the 5th row intentionally to humiliate me and my party's status in the House."

Raut has said he fails to understand the reason behing "this unwarranted step of re-allocation of seats since there is no formal announcement about the removal from NDA". The senior party leader and MP has further said that the move has hurt the dignity of the Parliament and has demanded that he be allotted a seat in any of the first three rows according to the decorum of the House.

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