Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha Piyush Goyal on Wednesday accused senior Congress leader P Chidambaram of insulting Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar in the garb of being an “intellectual” and asked him to apologise in the house.
Goyal raised the issue during Question Hour after Chidambaram questioned the chair as to why no question on the Manipur violence issue was answered or admitted to being taken up in the house.
Chidambaram said questions are classified as starred andunstarred, and he has been told by several members that questions have been asked about Manipur but they have neither been admitted nor answered in writing.
“When I asked PRISM, the research facility established by you and the Speaker, which are the questions admitted and answered on that subject since the Parliament session started on July 20 until today. The answer shocked me. Not one question has been admitted or answered on the subject, the subject is Manipur,” he said.
At this point, the chairman said he was not able to understand the point the Congress MP was making or whether he had a grievance.
Goyal got up and termed this “very unfortunate”, saying a member is questioning the Chair and passing remarks on the Chair.
