Hyderabad, July 30 : Congress MP & former TPCC President Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Saturday strongly denounced the BJP MPs for misbehaving and heckling Congress President Sonia Gandhi on the sacred premises of Parliament.
In a statement, he alleged that the BJP’s style of functioning was dangerous for Parliamentary democracy in India.
Reddy said Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remarks on President Droupadi Murmu were inadvertent slip of tongue.
Chowdhury immediately expressed regret and also apologised for the same, he said.
However, BJP made it a big issue and tried to drag Sonia Gandhi into the controversy.
“After the Lok Sabha was adjourned, Union Minister Smriti Irani and a few other BJP MPs heckled the Congress President. They behaved in a demeaning and disgraceful manner,” the senior Congress leader said.
Uttam said that by shouting slogans against Sonia Gandhi, a senior Parliamentarian, BJP has stooped down to a new low in its long history of undermining Parliamentary democracy.
Reddy accused the BJP of trying to score political points by constantly referring to the caste and gender of someone who holds the highest constitutional post of the President of India.
‘The day Droupadi Marmu got elected, she became the President of the entire country. We are all proud of her being a woman and she hailed from the Adivasi background. But today, she is the representative and leader of all Indians, irrespective of their caste, religion, region or gender,” he said.
The Congress MP asked BJP leaders to stop enacting the dramas of ‘defending President Murmu’. “She is the President of India and the Supreme Commander of our armed forces. She doesn’t need any sympathy and protection from BJP leaders. Every citizen of this country loves and respects her.
Therefore, BJP leaders must stop giving statements which reduce the stature of the President of India,” he added.
