Modi quenches Mann’s thirst in LS
Thursday, 17/12/2015
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday offered a glass of water to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member Bhagwant Mann, who was protesting in the Lok Sabha against the CBI raids on the Delhi government secretariat, where chief minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal has his office.
Mann, who was shouting slogans in the Well, felt uneasy and was apparently looking for water on the table of the Lok Sabha secretariat officials, who sit in the Well. A smiling Modi offered him the glass of water kept on his table and the AAP member readily gulped it down. The two exchanged smiles before Mann kept the glass on the table
and the PM put the lid on it. Several BJP members thumped their desks at the PM’s gesture.
Mann, thereafter, continued to raise anti-government slogans.
Mann, along with several Congress members, was protesting inside the Well soon after the speaker disallowed their notices of motions to adjourn question hour on various issues. Question hour continued amid the din.
The AAP MP from Sangrur had been showing a bunch of papers to speaker Sumitra Mahajan to attract her attention. At one point, she warned Mann and said his behaviour was “not good”.
He had then moved to the other side of the Well and was standing near the Prime Minister’s seat when the incident occurred.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who could not see what had happened as several of her party members were standing in the Well, blocking her view, wanted to know what taken place. When told about it, she went into peals of laughter.
External affairs miniser Sushma Swaraj, seated in the front row along with the PM and other leaders, was also seen laughing.
While Mann and fellow AAP MP, Sadhu Singh, as also some Congress members, were raising slogans in the Well, another AAP MP, Dharamvira Gandhi, was standing on his bench holding a placard demanding renaming of the Chandigarh airport after Shaheed Bhagat Singh.
A furious Kejriwal had on Tuesday accused the Modi government of targeting him over the raids by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the Delhi secretariat.
