Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee mimicing Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar outside the Parliament building Image Courtesy PTI
Slamming “Congress elements” for the mimicry of Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, community outfit Jat association took to social media to express outrage at the incident.
“Vice President and the pride of the Jat community, Jagdeep Dhankhar has been mocked. The Jat community will definitely take account of this mockery in the coming Lok Sabha elections,” the Jat Association said in a post on social media platform X.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee had kicked off a raging controversy when he staged a mimicry of Jagdeep Dhankhar outside the Parliament building. Visuals on television news channels showed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi filming the act on his mobile phone.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar, who is also the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, expressed outrage at the incident.
“Mr Chidambaram, you are a very senior member. Imagine what I felt when a senior leader of your party, an MP, was filming an act making fun of me, a personal attack,” he said while addressing senior Congress leader P Chidambaram during his remarks in the Rajya Sabha.
“This is not just the insult of a farmer or a community, it’s disrespect to the post of Rajya Sabha chairman. And that too by a party that ruled the country for so long. I am very pained,” he added.
He said that the video had been placed on the Congress’s official Instagram account, but it has since been removed.
“This is shameful. You used an official handle to humiliate me for my farmer background, to humiliate me as a Jat, to humiliate my position. This is very serious,” Dhankhar said.
Following their disruption of Parliamentary proceedings to demand a statement from Union Home Minister Amit Shah regarding the significant security breach that occurred last week, 141 MPs have been suspended.
Two trespassers broke into the Lok Sabha on Wednesday and used coloured smoke to leap from desk to desk. In relation to the event, six people have been taken into custody. According to the accused, their goal was to raise awareness of the problems facing farmers, unemployment, and instability in Manipur.
(With agency inputs)
