When the Speaker became Speechless!
posted on Feb 13, 2014 @ 5:23PM
Just when we thought that the dust had settled and the T bill had gone to the Lok Sabha, we have witnessed some appalling incidents in the history of the Lok Sabha proceedings. The drama being unfolded by each party and the heightened drama by Lagadapati Rajagopal’s comical behavior of using a pepper spray in the Parliament which left many parliamentarians, staff and journalists coughing and teary-eyed as they rushed outside in panic to avoid the smell and chemical effects of the spray with the MP himself fainting in the process. The pepper spray incident will make the word "pepper spray" the most popular key word in search engines today. And who said that it was only girls who use it for protection!
Now to add to the drama that unfolded we have TDP MP Venugopal Reddy brandishing the speakers mike , looked like he was using a knife which he vehemently denied . The state of affairs in the Lok Sabha this year has been most preposterous and one wonders if this kind of behavior is doing any good to MPs image in front of the public. We don’t need to take any parties name as each individual is doing their best to be on prime time news . Guess the TRP ratings can be boosted with this free show by our MPs.
This day February 13th, 2014 will go into the chronicles of Lok Sabha proceedings when pepper spray was used in its proceedings which left the usually demure and poised speaker Meira Kumar speechless. The parliament remains closed on Friday on account of Guru Ravidas Jayanti and the Lok Sabha will meet on Monday.
So stay tuned for more action this coming Monday!