Kiren Rijiju slams Congress women MPs for protesting near PM Modi's seat in Lok Sabha

New Delhi: Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday released a video of the Congress women MPs protesting near the Prime Minister's seat last week to underscore the reasons given by the LS speaker in asking PM Modi to avoid making a speech in the lower house on the Presidential address.

In the video, Congress’s women MPs including Jothimani and Varsha Gaekwad were seen walking over to the treasury benches with a banner in hand. BJP MPs are seen asking them to go back, but the MPs continue protesting.

“Congress Party is proud of the most degrading behavior by their MPs … If we had not stopped all BJP MPs and allowed the Women MPs to confront Cong. MPs, it would have led to a very ugly scene. We have very high consideration, to protect the dignity & sanctity of the Parliament,” he posted along with the video.

Rijiju later told reporters that women MPs were sent forward. “They sent the women MPs forward who came to the PM’s seat with a banner. We displayed a lot of control and did not come forward; we asked our MPs to not fight. But they wanted to fight, look at the difference,” he said. He added that Congress should apologise.

Rijiju posted another video of the Opposition MPs shown walking over to the treasury benches. “Who can justify such behaviors from the Honb'le MPs? The direction from our leadership was very clear that we must maintain the dignity of the house and no BJP MP should get into physical confrontation with the rude opposition MPs,” he further posted.