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The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition has accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of body-shaming a UDF legislator implicit the latter’s height.
Leader of the Opposition V. D. Satheesan has written to Speaker A. N. Shamseer seeking the removal of the Chief Minister’s “offensive remark” from Assembly records.
He besides accused Mr. Vijayan of lowering the stature of the House successful the nationalist oculus by allegedly infringing connected parliamentary propriety and rules and procedures that govern the behaviour of legislative business.
The arguable remark occurred during the Zero Hour. Chaos had erupted successful the Assembly aft UDF members trooped into the good of the House and mobbed the Speaker’s podium, demanding the resignation of Devaswom Minister V. N. Vasavan and Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) P. S. Prasanth implicit “official connivance” successful the alleged misappropriation of spiritual artefacts from the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple.
The ticker and ward had formed a quality shield successful beforehand of the Speaker’s dias erstwhile an Opposition subordinate attempted to standard the rostrum.
Without naming immoderate individual, Mr Vijayan quoted a Malayalam adage astir persons who ill-advisedly unpaid for daredevilry without recognising that they inherently deficiency the carnal prowess to execute specified demanding feats of strength.
He said the idiosyncratic made up for his deficiency of carnal stature by misusing legislative privilege arsenic a shield to face ticker and ward personnel, including women.
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