VP Jagdeep Dhankar slams P Chidambaram over ‘part-timer’ remark
Dhankar said that he took pride in the fact that the Parliament did “a great thing” by “unshackling us from the colonial legacy” and giving three laws that were of “epochal dimension”.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar on Saturday lashed out at Congress leader P Chidambaram over his comment that the three new criminal laws were “drafted by part-timers”, terming it as “inexcusable” and urging him to withdraw his “derogatory, defamatory and insulting” observation.
Dhankar said he was “shocked beyond words” when in the morning he read Chidambaram’s interview to a leading national daily wherein he had said that “the new laws were drafted by part-timers”.
“Are we part-timers in the Parliament? It is an inexcusable insult to the wisdom of the Parliament…I do not have words strong enough to condemn such a narrative being set afloat and an MP being labelled as a part-timer.
“I appeal to him (Chidambaram) from this platform, please withdraw this derogatory, defamatory and highly insulting observations about the Members of Parliament (MPs). I hope he does it,” the Vice President said while addressing the 12th convocation of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) here.
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