Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday threatened to move a privilege motion against two Congress MP — Renuka Chowdhury and Jairam Ramesh — for allegedly misbehaving with her in the Rajya Sabha
Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday threatened to move a privilege motion against two Congress MP — Renuka Chowdhury and Jairam Ramesh — for allegedly misbehaving with her in the Rajya Sabha.
Ms Badal, who is the food processing minister in the Modi Cabinet, alleged that the Congress MPs did not allow her to speak in the Upper House.
The minister wanted to speak on the matter of Parliament’s security in the wake of a video uploaded on social media by Aam Aadmi Party MP Bhagwant Mann on Thursday.
“I am astonished at the rudeness Jairam Ramesh and Renuka Chowdhury showed while speaking to me. They questioned me as to how could I come in the House when I was not its member and said I was disrupting the House proceedings,” Ms Badal said outside Parliament. “I am going to move privilege motion against them. This is not the way you behave with a minister,” she said.
“For them the lives of our jawans, our people hold no value. The video clip that has been uploaded could fall in wrong hands and the House should have discussed it,” she added.
Ms Badal is a member of the Lok Sabha, but as a minister she can speak in either House of Parliament. Renuka Chowdhury denied her allegations of misbehaviour.
