Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar received telephone call from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, PM conveyed his profound sorrow for the abject theatrics of some Members of Parliament in the Parliament complex, said the Vice President’s Secretariat.
“He informed me that he has endured such taunts for two decades and more, but it was regrettable that it could occur to an office established by the Constitution, such as the Vice President, and that too in Parliament,” Dhankhar wrote on Twitter.
Dhankhar told the prime minister that such incidents will not deter him from doing his duty and upholding the principles enshrined in the Constitution. ” I am committed to those values from the bottom of my heart. None of the insults will make me diverted from my path,” Dhankhar added.
Received a telephone call from the Prime Minister, Shri @narendramodi Ji. He expressed great pain over the abject theatrics of some Honourable MPs and that too in the sacred Parliament complex yesterday. He told me that he has been at the receiving end of such insults for twenty…
— Vice President of India (@VPIndia) December 20, 2023
Following Trinamool Congress lawmaker Kalyan Banerjee’s mocking imitation of Dhankhar during the opposition’s demonstration against the suspension of the MPs on the steps of Parliament on Tuesday, a political dispute erupted, which was strongly denounced by the ruling BJP.
Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader, was caught filming Banerjee’s act. He leaned forward and seemed to be copying Dhankhar’s gait, even alluding to having a spine.
He stated in the Rajya Sabha, “Imagine what must be going through my heart when your senior leader videographs a Member of Parliament mocking the institution of the chairman.”
”You used Twitter, the official spokesperson’s handle, to denigrate me, disparage my farming background, disparage my status as a Jat, disparage my chairmanship,’ Dhankhar had stated in reference to Rajya Sabha member P Chidambaram, a member of the Congress.
Dhankhar expressed his pain in the Rajya Sabha, claiming he was personally harmed by the attacks on his Jat and farmer roots.
