The circular, undersigned by Secretary-General P C Mody reads, “Members cannot use the precincts of the Parliament House for any Demonstration, Dharna, Strike, Fast, or for the purpose of performing any religious ceremony.”
New Delhi: A new circular from the Rajya Sabha Secretariat issued on Thursday said the members of Parliament cannot use the precincts of Parliament House to hold demonstrations, protests, dharnas, fasts or religious ceremonies.
The circular, undersigned by Secretary-General P C Mody reads, “Members cannot use the precincts of the Parliament House for any Demonstration, Dharna, Strike, Fast, or for the purpose of performing any religious ceremony.”
The circular sparked an outrage among the member of the Opposition with many terming it as a “gag order”. The recent order came amid heightened protests against the issuance of a new list of words that are unparliamentary.
Congress general secretary and the party’s chief whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh took to Twitter to attack the government. “Vishguru’s latest salvo — D(h)arna Mana Hai!,” the leader wrote while sharing the circular.
Ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, the lawmakers were handed out a booklet containing a new list of words that are deemed unfit in the two Houses and will be expunged from a speech is used by any. The move was immediately criticised by the Opposition leaders, with some of them saying they would still use the words in the floor of the Houses.
Some of the words that are in the list are — ‘Bloodshed’, ‘bloody’, ‘betrayed’, ‘ashamed’, ‘abused’, ‘cheated, ‘chamcha’, ‘chamchagiri’, ‘chelas’, ‘childishness’, ‘corrupt’, ‘coward’, ‘criminal’ and ‘crocodile tears’, ‘disgrace’, ‘donkey’, ‘drama’, ‘eyewash’, ‘fudge’, ‘hooliganism’, ‘hypocrisy’, ‘incompetent’, ‘mislead’, ‘lie’, ‘untrue’, ‘anarchist’, ‘gaddar’, ‘girgit’, ‘goons’, ‘ghadiyali ansu’, ‘apmaan’, ‘asatya’, ‘ahankaar’, ‘corrupt’, ‘kala din’, ‘kala bazaari’, ‘khareed farokht’, ‘danga’, ‘dalal’, ‘daadagiri’, ‘dohra charitra’, ‘bechara’, ‘bobcut’, ‘lollypop’, ‘vishwasghat’, ‘samvedanheen’, ‘foolish’, ‘pitthu’, ‘behri sarkar’, and ‘sexual harassment’.