A special committee could be set up to look into the alleged manhandling claim of Opposition MPs by the marshals reported PTI. Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu held discussions with officers of the Upper House on Thursday. Officials informed him that no outsiders had been deployed contained in the House.
The Opposition has claimed that outsiders were brought in on Wednesday to manhandle MPs and addressed the media on Thursday, complaining about the behaviour, as well as lashing out at the government for not letting them raise issues during the Monsoon Session. Naidu held an hour-long assembly with the senior officers of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat on the proceedings and switch of occasions within the House over the previous few days, together with the problem of deployment of marshals on Wednesday. In his assembly with the senior officers of the Secretariat, the Chairman enquired in regards to the unruly incidents in Parliament previously, committees constituted on the identical by the presiding officers, experiences submitted and actions taken. Earlier on August 11, unruly scenes were witnessed in Rajya Sabha when Opposition MPs climbed on the officials’ table, waved black cloth and threw files. The CCTV footage shows Opposition members tearing papers and throwing them in the air. Meanwhile, one MP can also be seen atop a table.
