A group of twenty MPs, including Sitaram Yechury of CPM and Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress said that the right wing leader should be punished for her remarks to attack those who opposed the hanging of terrorist Yakub Memon.
Taking strong objection to the utterance "one or two terrorists are sitting in parliament" of right wing Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Sadhvi Prachi, a group Rajya Sabha members on Friday moved privilege motion against her.
Speaking in Roorkee on Thursday, Sadvi Prachi had said, "It is a big misfortune that in the Indian Parliament, we have one-two terrorists sitting there. I do not think there can be a bigger misfortune for India than this as they who, are disobeying the judgment of a court, because the court has proved that he (Yakub) is a terrorist. When the court has already proved so, those supporting the terrorist are terrorists themselves I believe."
A group of twenty MPs, including Sitaram Yechury of CPM and Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress said that the right wing leader should be punished for her remarks to attack those who opposed the hanging of terrorist Yakub Memon. Several MPs, including Shahshi Tharoor of Congress and Shatrughan Sinha of BJP had opposed death penalty to Yakub Memon. Several Left MPs and prominent citizens, including former judges and lawyers had also petitioned President Pranab Mukerjee against the execution, stating that they do not support the death penalty.
Of the view that it is high time to take notice of such vengeful remarks or else such tendencies to attack will increase, the signatory MPs moved a breach of privilege notice to the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Vice President Hamid Ansari, asking Sadvi Prachi to be penalised for making derogatory statements to the elected representatives. "When someone calls those sitting inside parliament as terrorists, then it is not just an insult to the Parliament but also the Constitution," Congress leader Pramod Tiwari said.
Sadhvi Prachi is not new to controversies and has been accused of making hate speeches and is considered by the UP police among chief motivators of deadly Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013. She had also asked the government to hand over Pakistani terrorist Naved, caught in Udhampur, to the Hindu organizations which alone can teach him a good lesson.
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