Lok Sabha Speaker Bans Protests At Parliament Gates After Row Over MPs Damage: Report
Chaos At Parliament: In a giant transfer following a chaos at Parliament premises the place political protests turned ugly, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday banned demonstrations by MPs and political events at any of the gates of Parliament, sources advised information company PTI.
“Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has issued strict directions that no political social gathering, Member of Parliament or teams of members will maintain any dharna and demonstration at constructing gates of Parliament Home,” PTI quoted parliament sources as saying.
The directions got here on a day when Parliament premises noticed rival protests by the BJP-led NDA and the Congress-led INDIA bloc events on the alleged insults to B R Ambedkar which quickly changed into jostling and scuffles leaving two MPs injured and a lady MP claiming intimidation by Chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
Chaotic scenes had been witnessed outdoors Parliament Home on Thursday after MPs from the NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc staged separate protests over Union Residence Minister Amit Shah’s remarks on BR Ambedkar.
Because the day handed, the protests took an unsightly flip when members from each blocs confronted one another, resulting in jostling.
Following the confrontation of parliamentarians from either side, a scuffle broke out by which BJP MP Pratap Sarangi and Mukesh Rajput sustained accidents and had been hospitalized.
Sarangi sustained a brow harm through the conflict. The saffron social gathering alleged that Congress MP and Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi pushed an MP who fell on Sarangi. The declare was strongly denied by the grand previous social gathering.
Hours after the scuffle, Delhi Police on Thursday filed an FIR in opposition to Rahul Gandhi over allegations pertaining to “bodily assault and incitement” throughout a scuffle within the Parliament.
Appearing upon the criticism lodged by the NDA MPs, together with BJP’s Anurag Thakur and Bansuri Swaraj, the case in opposition to the previous Congress chief was registered below numerous sections, together with 109 (try and homicide), 115 (voluntarily inflicting grievous harm), 117, 125, 131, and 351 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Police had eliminated part 109 (try and homicide) of the BNS, which was earlier included within the FIR. All different sections are the identical as given within the criticism.
(With businesses inputs)
