"Show Me Footage": Trinamool's Derek O'Brien On Charge He Threw Rule Book
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Trinamool Congress's Derek O'Brien said: "Yesterday, they passed the bill in 20 minutes in the Lok Sabha. You are supposed to allow me two days. No Rajya Sabha member was allowed even one day. It was the same as farm bills".
Trinamool Congress's Derek O'Brien, who got suspended for the rest of the Winter Session for allegedly throwing the Rajya Sabha rule book at the chair during an opposition protest over the Election Reform Bill, refused to give a straight answer today on whether such an event really took place. Pressed on the point, he accused the government of doing much more.
"Oh! Really? Someone threw a rulebook? Parliament is being burned. Modi and Shah roaming around the parliament with a knife murdering democracy," Mr O'Brien mocked when asked about the matter. "12 MPs are sitting outside. 700 farmers were murdered. Who did that?" he added.
Asked if that justified his throwing the rulebook, he told NDTV: "Show me the footage. They suspended me for a day. My gosh. Imagine if I threw the rulebook..."
Asked why he was suspended in that case, the Trinamool leader smiled. "Because this government doesn't like to listen to tutorials…".
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