No word has been banned: Speaker on gag order

July 14, 2022 17:07

"No word has been banned," says Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on the uproar by Opposition leaders over new words categorised as 'unparliamentary'.

"Have they (the Opposition) read this 1100-page dictionary (comprising unparliamentary words)? If they had, they would not have spread this misconception. It's been released in 1954...1986, 1992, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2010... It was then released on a yearly basis since 2010.

"To avoid wastage of paper, we have put it on the internet. No words have been banned. We have issued a compilation of the words that have been expunged," the Speaker clarified.

The Congress and Trinamool Congress on Thursday slammed the "gag order" on usage of certain words in Parliament, saying all terms used by the Opposition to describe the Modi dispensation will now to be considered "unparliamentary".

According to a new booklet by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, use of terms like 'jumlajeevi', 'baal buddhi', 'Covid spreader' and 'Snoopgate' and even commonly used words like 'ashamed', 'abused, 'betrayed', 'corrupt', 'drama', 'hypocrisy' and 'incompetent' will henceforth be considered unparliamentary in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

Slamming the move, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, "All words used by the Opposition to describe the reality of Modi Sarkar now to be considered 'unparliamentary'. What next Vishguru".

Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala also said, "Saheb knows his qualities very well".

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