New Delhi, : A group of Bharatiya Janata Party MPs on Monday moved a breach of parliamentary privilege notice against Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, alleging use of “derogatory and slanderous words” to describe President Droupadi Murmu as she addressed a joint session of Parliament last week. The comments, the MPs alleged, were meant to “lower the dignity of the highest office”. “We write this with great dismay about certain unparliamentary, derogatory, and demeaning remarks recently made by Sonia Gandhi, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), against the President of India, which warrant serious
consideration and disciplinary action,” the notice said. “It is with deep concern we highlight this statement… which appears to demean the stature and dignity of the President of India, the highest Constitutional authority of our nation.” “Such remarks not only undermine the dignity of the office but also violate the sanctity of parliamentary conventions,” the BJP MPs said in their letter to Rajya Sabha Chair Jagdeep Dhankhar. Ms Gandhi’s remark, they argued, “in no way get the benefit of parliamentary privileges”, citing a Supreme Court judgement that said abuse of privilege by an MP was “difficult to digest”. “Furthermore, even the Parliamentary Ethics and Code of Conduct prescribes that no member utter defamatory words against others… this assumes significance when it concerns the President of India, and that too, when spoken about within the Parliamentary premises.” The remarks, they further argued, were “a clear manifestation of the elitist and anti-tribal mindset of Ms Gandhi, who is yet to understand the struggle and sensitivity of a tribal poor”. “Given the gravity of this issue, we humbly urge you to take cognisance and initiate appropriate disciplinary action against Sonia Gandhi,” the BJP MPs wrote, calling for “exemplary action
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