The Lok Sabha secretariat on Wednesday released a booklet terming the use of certain words as “unparliamentary”, Congress and TMC leader reacts.
Mumbai:Â The Lok Sabha secretariat has recently issued a booklet that lists words, the use of which in both houses of Parliament will now be considered unparliamentary and will be expunged from records.The decision to designate certain words as unparliamentary has sparked a debate.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a dig at the center amid the growing protests by opposition lawmakers over the latest list of words considered unfit for the parliament and explained his version of it. The Congress leader took to twitter and used the banned words.
Rahul Gandhi shared an image on Twitter that described the word unparliamentary. The image described unparliamentary as, âWords used in discussion and debates which correctly describes the PMâs handling of the government, now banned from being spoken.â
New Dictionary for New India. pic.twitter.com/SDiGWD4DfY
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 14, 2022
He captioned the image as âNew Dictionary for New India.â
TMC MP Mahua Moitra also joined the red flagging of the move to ban from parliament 40 words and phrases ,including those used frequently by the opposition to attack and critique the government. She fired four tweets in response to the banned list.
“You mean I cant stand up in Lok Sabha and talk of how Indians have been betrayed by an incompetent government who should be ashamed of their hypocrisy?” she tweeted.
You mean I canât stand up in Lok Sabha & talk of how Indians have been betrayed by an incompetent government who should be ashamed of their hypocrisy? https://t.co/LYznOtsHFe
— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) July 13, 2022
Followed by, âBaith jaye, baith jaye, prem se boleinâ. This was in reference to one of the Lok Sabha speakers, Meira Kumar when she tried to control a chaotic situation in the parliamentary house in the year 2013. Mahua Moitra further wrote that the current government has banned all the words that were being used to criticise them.
Baith jaiye. Baith Jaiye. Prem se boliye.
New list of unparliamentary words for LS & RS does not include Sanghi.
Basically govt taken all words used by opposition to describe how BJP destroying India & banned them.
— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) July 14, 2022
In another tweet of this series, the minister posed a question stating âIs truth unparliamentary?â. Mahua Moitra then went on to list a few facts about Indiaâs gender gap index ranking.
Is âTruthâ unparliamentary?
– Annual Gender Gap Report 2022 Ranks India 135 out of 146
– On health and survival subindex, India ranked lowest at 146th place
– India among only 5 countries with gender gaps larger than 5%— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) July 14, 2022
In another tweet of her series, she mentioned one of the banned words in the list that was âsexual harassmentâ and replaced it with the word âMr. Gogoiâ.
My first of new twitter series on replacements for unparliamentary words .
Banned word- Sexual Harassment
Replacement- Mr. Gogoi— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) July 14, 2022
The tweets by Mahua Moitra shows her witty and serious dig at the whole scenario.
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