Opposition insulting Jats through no-trust motion against Jagdeep Dhankhar, alleges BJP
The INDIA bloc accused the vice president and Rajya Sabha chairman of being partisan in conducting proceedings of the Upper House.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday alleged that a no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition against Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar was an insult to the Jat community, to which he belongs.
The Opposition, in the no-confidence motion, accused Dhankhar of conducting the proceedings of the Upper House of Parliament in an “extremely partisan manner”.
However, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said that although the Opposition talked about caste, it was insulting Dhankhar, who hailed “from an ordinary farmer’s family”.
Patra said: “The Congress and its allies know that they do not have the numbers [to get the motion passed in the Rajya Sabha]. This notice is going to fall. However, the party introduced such a notice for the first time in the Rajya Sabha, only to insult the Jat community.”
The BJP spokesperson said: “Jats are patriots. They have shed their blood for India and its freedom. Today you are making such allegations against a Jat vice president. Somewhere you are trying to defame him by saying that he is not doing his work properly.”
Article 67(b) of the Constitution states that the vice president may be removed from his office if a resolution is passed by the Council of States, or Rajya Sabha, and agreed to by the House of...
