The BJP on Thursday 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.
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 television serial Ramayan, which was telecast in 1980s.
Congress members claimed today his jibe was "derogatory".
A visibly miffed Chowdhary told ANI, "PM made a personal remark, what else do you expect from him? I can't fall to that level to reply to him. This is actually called denigrating the status of a woman," she said.
Union textile minister Smriti Irani, however, lashed out at Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Renuka Chowdhury after the latter accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of sexism. "I was present there. I heard the kind of indecent remarks she was making on PM Modi. Is it justified that she makes indecent remarks & when those remarks are met sarcastically she makes her gender her shield?" Irani told reporters outside Parliament House.
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.
Union minister Smriti Irani claimed that she had herself heard Chowdhury passing inappropriate remarks, especially on the prime minister.
BJP leader Vinay Sahasrabuddhe said that laughing at the prime minister's speech was an "indecent behaviour" which hit the dignity of Parliament.
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