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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla connected Monday (January 12, 2025) did not regularisation retired “exemplary punishment” implicit the alleged usage of e-cigarette successful the House, asserting that maintaining the dignity of Parliament was non-negotiable.
BJP subordinate Anurag Thakur had sent a complaint to the Speaker alleging that a Trinamool Congress subordinate was “openly using” an e-cigarette successful the House during the proceedings contempt specified devices being banned crossed the country.
“No 1 has the close to undermine the sanctity of the House,” Mr. Birla told reporters here.
The Lok Sabha Speaker said the substance was nether probe and would beryllium aboriginal referred to an due committee of the House for further action.
‘Will enactment connected panel’s view’
“We volition enactment connected the proposal of the committee. Everyone volition person to support decorum successful the House. A subordinate could adjacent suffer his membership. Nobody volition beryllium allowed to little the dignity of the House,” helium further said.
“It is simply a responsibility. You volition person to support decorum wrong the House and the 1 who does not support decorum volition beryllium punished nether the rules and procedures of the Parliament. Action volition beryllium taken according to the rules,” the Speaker added.
