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BJP MP Anurag Thakur connected Friday (December 12, 2025) asked Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to instrumentality enactment against a Trinamool Congress MP for allegedly smoking an e-cigarette wrong the House.
E-cigarettes were banned successful the state a fewer years ago.
Mr. Thakur, who raised the contented during Zero Hour successful the Lok Sabha connected Thursday (December 11), submitted a written ailment to the Speaker connected Friday, seeking enactment against the TMC lawmaker.
“A Member of Parliament belonging to the All India Trinamool Congress was seen openly utilizing an physics cigaret portion seated successful the House during the sittings,” Mr. Thakur said successful his complaint, adding that the enactment was “clearly visible” to respective members present.
The ailment further said that the “open use” of a banned substance and a prohibited instrumentality wrong the ‘sanctum sanctorum’ of Indian ideology constitutes not lone a blatant usurpation of parliamentary decorum and subject but besides a cognisable offence nether the laws enacted by the House.
Such behaviour lowers the dignity of the House, sets an “extremely mediocre precedent” and sends a unsafe connection to the younker astatine a clip erstwhile the authorities and Parliament person taken a steadfast basal against each forms of baccy and nicotine products, the Hamirpur MP said.
He “earnestly” requested the Speaker to instrumentality contiguous cognisance of this superior breach of rules and law; nonstop an enquiry into the incidental done the due committee oregon mechanics of the House”.
He besides asked Mr Birla to initiate “appropriate disciplinary proceedings against the subordinate concerned” arsenic per the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business successful Lok Sabha.
When the contented was raised by the BJP MP connected Thursday (December 11), the Speaker had assured that if a written ailment is lodged connected the matter, helium volition instrumentality action.
