Click to play videoNew Delhi: Anna Hazare's associate Kiran Bedi and Bollywood actor Om Puri are in trouble for lampooning MPs and politicians during the anti-corruption agitation at Ramlila Maidan. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has accepted a privilege motion against the duo for their antics at Ramlila Maidan.
Meira Kumar said she had received notices from PL Punia, Jagadambika Pal, Ramashankar Rajbhar, Lalchand Kataria, Mirza Aslam Beg, Praveen Aron and Shailendra Kumar. "The matter is under my consideration," she said.
The privilege motion against Bedi and Puri has been sent to the Privilege Committee by the Speaker.
While Bedi had in a parody at the Ramlila Maidan attacked politicians, saying they were several masks and can't be trusted; Puri had called them illiterate, rustic and useless.
"Most of the parliamentarians are illiterate, 'ganwar' (rustic) and 'naalayak' (useless). Look at the way they fight with each other. They throw chairs, mikes at each others," Puri had said at the Ramlila Maidan.
Puri has already apologised on Sunday for his speech during a discussion on IBN7.
"I am unhappy with myself over two of the terms that I used. The first is 'uneducated' and the second is 'useless'. I agree I could have used better language, but I was caught in the moment and so used those terms," Puri said.
Justice Santosh Hegde, former Karnataka Lokayukta and a close Hazare aide, defended Bedi and Puri while opposing the privilege motion against them. Hegde said that may be Bedi and Puri exceeded in mimic but it is common and at times there is provocation for that.
He said that there is nothing in the Constitution there is nothing against such acts and speeches. He said that breach of privilege should be used in exceptional cases and only after the context is understood.
Rajya Sabha Members Ram Gopal Yadav (Samajwadi Party) and Mohammed Adeeb (Independent) moved the privilege motion against the duo for attacking parliamentarians.
What is a privilege motion:
A privilege motion is a parliamentary motion that is granted precedence over ordinary business because it concerns matters of great importance or urgency.
During a privilege motion, a Member of Parliament can raise a question involving a breach of privilege either of a member or of the Council or of a Committee with the consent of the Speaker.
If the Speaker feels that the matter, raised by the member who has given notice, is urgent and is of sufficient public importance to be raised in the Council at an early date, he may admit the notice.
The House may consider the question and come to a decision or refer it to a Committee of Privileges on a motion made either by the member who has raised the question of privilege or by any other member.
There shall be no formal motion before the Council or voting. The member who has given notice may make a short statement and the Minister shall reply shortly. Any member who has previously intimated to the Chairman may be permitted to take part in the discussion.
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