Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari on Tuesday sent CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury’s privilege motion against HRD minister Smriti Irani to the committee of privileges.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari on Tuesday sent CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury’s privilege motion against HRD minister Smriti Irani to the committee of privileges.
The privilege motion against Ms Irani was moved for making “baseless allegations” against the CPI(M) leader during her statement on the debate on the JNU row and Hyderabad University scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide on February 26 in the Upper House.
Mr Yechury had also claimed that he had also been getting threatening calls and obscene messages after Ms Irani’s speech and allegations against him.
With the Chairman admitting the privilege motion against Ms Irani, the House committee could summon and question the HRD minister.
In his letter to the Rajya Sabha Chairman last month, Mr Yechury had written that the minister had made “baseless allegations against me imputing motives that are completely false”.
