Speaker’s threat illogical, says Capt
Tuesday, 29/01/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130129/punjab.htm#6
Chandigarh : Reiterating that the Congress will continue to screen the CD showing Revenue Minister and Youth Akali Dal president Bikram Majithia hurling expletives at Congress MLA Rana Gurjit Singh on the floor of the House, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today questioned the rationale behind Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal's threat to suspend Congress legislators on the issue.
Amarinder said the CD would be screened during the Moga byelection and "if the Speaker wants to suspend me or any of the party members, he may do so... The party will move the court."
The PCC president said it was illogical on the Speaker's part to claim that the remarks had been expunged from the House proceedings when he had himself allowed the proceedings to be shown live.The recordings were already in the public domain, he pointed out. The PCC president said if the Speaker had expunged the remarks from the proceedings, then these remarks must be wrong. "What action has he taken against the person who made such remarks in the House that these had to be expunged," he asked. He also pointed out that the Speaker had suspended an "innocent" Congress MLA targeted by Majithia while the latter was not even censured for his behaviour.
