The Lok Sabha on Thursday was adjourned till 4 pm after a one-time adjournment following an uproar by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs over a remark by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on President Draupadi Murmu.
Terming the Congress as “anti-tribals, women and the poor”, the BJP demanded an apology from Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Earlier, when the proceedings of the lower house started at 11 am, Women and Child Development Minister and senior BJP leader Smriti Irani raised the issue and said that the leader of Congress in the house, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, had taken the country’s first woman tribal out of the house. The President insulted Draupadi Murmu by calling her ‘national wife’.
He said that it is the pride of this country that for the first time in 75 years of independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi nominated a poor tribal woman as the presidential candidate.
Irani said, “Murmu became the center of hatred of the Congress as soon as she became the presidential candidate. The male leaders of Congress called Draupadi Murmu a ‘puppet’, called Draupadi a ‘symbol of evil’. And yesterday, Leader of Congress in the House Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury insulted the President by calling her ‘national wife’.
During this, Sonia Gandhi and Chaudhary were present in the House.