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Blame game begins after women MPs claim they were manhandled by male marshals

Aug 12, 2021, 10:34AM ISTSource: Times Now

Amid chaotic scenes in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, leader of the House Piyush Goyal demanded a special committee to probe various “incidents” where opposition MPs conducted themselves in an unruly manner while the opposition claimed marshals were used to run roughshod over protests. Commerce minister Goyal sought “strict action” against unruly members shortly before the upper House was adjourned sine die on Wednesday evening, two days ahead of schedule. Infact, blame game begins after women MPs claim they were manhandled by male marshals. Slogan-shouting opposition MPs rushed into the well of the House soon after the General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill was introduced around 6pm. This was after a largely peaceful over-five hour debate on the OBC bill. Some MPs tried to climb onto the reporters’ table, even as there were scuffles between marshals and MPs, leading to the House being adjourned for 15 minutes. Later, Trinamool women MPs said they were manhandled even as parliamentary affairs minister Prahlad Joshi said it was the opposition that misbehaved with marshals. “...Manhandling the marshals has never happened in Parliament before. Such shameful conduct is an insult to the Temple of Democracy...” he tweeted later.

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