It refers to welcome unanimity cutting across party-lines putting apart religious sentiments against highly objectionable and indecent remarks by Samajwadi Party Parliamentarian Azam Khan on 25.07.2019 towards a woman member that too when she was chairing Lok Sabha proceedings. Azam Khan who often gives such indecent remarks outside Parliament also, deserves a fitting lesson so as to control him for future.
It is good that now Lok Sabha Speaker has expressed for stringent-most action against Azam Khan with the victim woman Parliamentarian not ready to accept any late apology for ever-defiant Azam Khan. Otherwise erring Parliamentarians in past were never treated harshly for their such undesired behaviour during Parliamentary proceedings or for their misconduct as Parliamentarian. It may be recalled that an RJD Lok Sabha member Rajesh Manjhi, once found guilty of taking another woman on travel-pass of his wife, was debarred from attending just 30 sittings of the Lok Sabha. Tearing of Lokpal Bill by Rajniti Prasad (RJD) in Rajya Sabha on 31.12.2011 was overlooked by the then Rajya Sabha Chairperson.
It is to be remembered that Supreme Court acquitted Parliamentarians involved in infamous JMM bribery case only because their act of voting by being bribed was considered immunised under Parliamentary privilege. It is time that immunity for wrong-doings during Parliamentary proceedings may be abolished.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL