New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar is the “greatest cause” behind disruptions within the Higher Home, the place he acts like a “headmaster” to “college students in a classroom,” Chief of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned Wednesday, launching an unprecedented no-holds-barred assault on the occupant of the second highest Constitutional workplace within the nation.
Addressing a press convention attended by leaders of the INDIA bloc, Kharge alleged that the loyalties of the Vice President, who’s the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, “lie with the federal government as a substitute of the Structure,” leading to him “outperforming even spokespersons of the federal government” in defending it.
Dhankhar’s actions have “imperilled” parliamentary democracy, leaving the Opposition with no possibility however to hunt his removing, Kharge mentioned.
“This discover has been filed after thorough consideration and deliberation for the only objective of defending the integrity of our parliamentary democracy,” Kharge mentioned.
His remarks come a day after the INDIA bloc, marking a primary within the historical past of India’s parliamentary democracy, submitted a discover to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat searching for to deliver a movement to take away Dhankhar from his publish below Article 67(B) of the Structure of India.
Kharge, who’s the president of the principal Opposition occasion Congress, mentioned such a transfer was by no means contemplated earlier than because the earlier Rajya Sabha chairpersons all the time remained above the fray, appearing neutrally and with out displaying any political bias.
“Nevertheless, immediately, we have now to regretfully level out that politics has overtaken guidelines within the Home. Within the seventy fifth 12 months of the adoption of the Structure, biased and partisan behaviour of the Rajya Sabha Chairman has pressured the opposition to hunt to take away him. He treats MPs of the opposition benches as his opponents and insults leaders of opposition of each the Homes,” Kharge mentioned.
“His (Dhankhar’s) loyalty lies with the federal government, not the Structure. He’s working because the spokesperson of the federal government for his subsequent promotion. The most important disruptor within the Home is the Chairman itself. He’s the largest cause behind disruptions within the Home. He has sullied the picture of the nation,” the veteran parliamentarian added.
The Congress’s INDIA bloc allies TMC, SP, DMK, RJD, CPI, CPI(M), JMM and NCP (SCP) have been in attendance as Kharge spoke.
Congress basic secretary in-charge (communications) Jairam Ramesh mentioned representatives of the AAP have been lacking from the joint press convention as they have been accompanying former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal who met the Chief Election Commissioner across the identical time within the afternoon.
Kharge additional accused Dhankhar of treating senior MPs in a demeaning method. “He colleges MPs with lengthy expertise like a headmaster. He speaks all the way down to them like they’re college students in a classroom. He delivers lengthy lectures himself and stands like a defend of the federal government. This isn’t only a breach of protocol, however betrayal of the structure and the folks of India,” he mentioned.
Within the discover towards Dhankhar, INDIA bloc MPs additionally flagged how he “repeatedly made disparaging feedback about Members of the Home belonging to opposition events publicly, criticising any and each motion taken by them the place the leaders have expressed points with the functioning of the ruling authorities”.
Even because the Opposition turned up the warmth, the BJP got here out in Dhankhar’s defence in the course of the day, with occasion president J.P. Nadda alleging the Congress, by attacking Dhankhar, was making an attempt to “divert consideration from the difficulty of ties between the highest Congress management and Soros”.
“I additionally wish to level out that the way by which Congress is making allegations towards the Chair is condemnable. It needs to be condemned by every one,” Nadda, who’s the Chief of the Home within the Rajya Sabha, mentioned.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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