“What About Your MP?” Mahua Moitra Assaults Smriti Irani On ‘Flying Kiss’ Row

Ms Moitra didn’t title outgoing Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

New Delhi:

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra as we speak attacked Union Minister Smriti Irani for speaking “about some flying kiss” however not saying a phrase when a BJP MP was accused of sexual harassment by wrestlers.

The assertion was a reference to Ms Irani elevating the problem of Rahul Gandhi’s alleged flying kiss in Parliament after his speech in the course of the no-confidence debate yesterday. The minister had expressed outrage and mentioned that the Home had by no means witnessed such an “indecent act”. 

Ladies BJP MPs had additionally demanded motion and complained to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that Mr Gandhi had insulted girls together with his “indecent gesture”.

With out naming BJP MP and outgoing Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Ms Moitra informed reporters, “When a BJP MP was accused of harassment and molestation by our champion wrestlers, we didn’t hear one phrase out of the Ladies and Baby Improvement minister and now she is speaking about some flying kiss. The place are your priorities, madam?” 

Ms Irani had mentioned yesterday, “By no means earlier than has the misogynistic behaviour of a person been so seen in parliament. When the Home of the folks – the place legal guidelines are made to guard the dignity of ladies – in the course of the course of a session stands witness to a person’s misogyny, my query is ought to he be dropped at job?”

The Congress had countered that Mr Gandhi was gesturing in the direction of slogan-shouting BJP MPs. “Rahul Gandhi gestured in the direction of the treasury benches as he was leaving with a flying kiss as he had referred to as them brothers and sisters. He didn’t direct it in the direction of any explicit minister or MP, and under no circumstances in the direction of Smriti Irani,” a Congress chief mentioned.