Charanjit Singh Channi, the former Chief Minister of Punjab and Congress leader, has issued a notice for breach of privilege against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Some media reports have claimed that BJP MP Anurag Thakur’s speech is part of the parliamentary record. For this reason, the Congress’s notice to Prime Minister Modi for breach of privilege is baseless.
During his speech on the Union Budget, BJP MP Anurag Thakur had said, “Those who do not know their caste, talk about calculation.” Several opposition members, including Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, raised objections to the statement by Thakur. Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi has moved a privilege notice against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his ‘chowkidar chor hai’ remark.
Why is Congress unhappy?
In fact, the Congress is upset that PM Modi posted MP Anurag Thakur’s speech on his X handle. Channi, a Lok Sabha member from Jalandhar, then filed a breach of privilege notice against Modi, alleging the removal of the Prime Minister’s video of Anurag Thakur’s speech from the House’s proceedings. However, even after this, PM Modi continued to violate the House’s privilege by posting the video. However, in this case, there has been new information. Government sources have informed the media that there was no justification for Congress’s privilege notice. Despite the removal of a portion of the Anurag Thakur speech, the section that Congress is raising concerns about remains part of the ongoing proceedings. Sources close to the Lok Sabha secretariat claim that this part of the speech is still on the Lok Sabha website, and anyone can see it.
The sources contend that the Congress’s primary objection to the parliamentary record, the question of a privilege notice, was unjustified. All this was just politics.
