Congress MP Rajani Patil, who was suspended from the Rajya Sabha on Friday for the remainder of the Parliament’s budget session, said it was not fair to give her the harshest punishment as she had not done anything deliberately.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar suspended Patil for the remainder of the current budget session for filming House proceedings.
Dhankhar, who had earlier in the day indicated that action would be taken against those who had filmed a ruckus during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on Thursday, asked leaders of political parties to express their views on the issue.
“I belong to a freedom fighter’s family and I should be given natural justice. I have not done anything deliberately,” Patil told reporters.
“Accusing me like this and straightaway giving me the sternest punishment is not fair. I was deliberately named and I felt humiliated,” she said.
The motion against Patil was adopted to suspend her for the remainder of the budget session, pending a report from the parliamentary privileges committee on the issue.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said GVL Narasimha Rao of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had taken recourse to a wrong rule, 256, as pointed out by Abhishek Manu Singhvi (Congress) and Jawahar Sircar (Trinamool Congress).
“Hence, the member’s suspension under Rule 256(2) on the motion moved in this regard is in violation of the Rules of Procedure.
“In the instant case, the only course of action, if at all, needs to be taken is to refer the matter to the Committee of Privileges or the Committee on Ethics or an inquiry committee by the chairman on a proper notice being given and not on the notice by GVL Narasimha Rao under Rule 256, and even the naming of the member by the chairman on this notice is irregular,” Ramesh said.
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