Mahua Moitra accuses Kiren Rijiju of ‘threatening’ her in Lok Sabha after remarks on judge Loya
The Trinamool Congress MP made a reference to the death of Loya ‘long before his time’, which sparked an uproar in House on Friday.
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Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Friday accused Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju of threatening her in the Lok Sabha and said that she has written to the Inter-Parliamentary Union about the incident.
“So Kiren Rijiju openly threatens me in Lok Sabha today in complete violation of parliamentary rules and procedure,” Moitra said on social media. “[Speaker Om Birla] says he will get Rijiju’s words deleted but no action yet.”
The Trinamool MP said that she had pointed out the “continued gender harassment and intimidation” in her letter to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
The Geneva-based union is a global organisation of national parliaments aimed at promoting peace through parliamentary diplomacy and dialogue.
During a debate on 75 years of the Indian Constitution on Friday, Moitra made a remark about the death of judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya while criticising the Bharatiya Janata Party for allegedly targeting institutions and Opposition leaders to silence dissent.
“Honourable defence minister in a speech this morning mentioned the courage of the late justice HR Khanna to dissent in 1976,” The Times of India quoted Moitra as saying in the Lower House of Parliament. “May I remind everyone, Justice HR Khanna lived for 32 years after 1976 under a largely Congress regime. Long enough to write his autobiography which the minister quoted from. Unlike poor Justice...
