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.