‘Not banned’: Lok Sabha Speaker amid ‘unparliamentary’ words row | India News,The Indian Express
The Lok Sabha Speaker further said people unaware of parliamentary practices make all kinds of comments, adding that the legislatures are independent of the government.
Amid a backlash over the Lok Sabha secretariat’s updated booklet listing certain words that will be considered unparliamentary in both Houses of the Parliament, Speaker Om Prakash Birla on Thursday said “no word has been banned” and that the members are free to express their views.
Birla said no one can snatch that right from the members but added that it should be as per the decorum of the Parliament, news agency PTI reported.
The Lok Sabha Speaker further said people unaware of parliamentary practices make all kinds of comments, adding that the legislatures are independent of the government.
The Opposition has slammed the list as a “gag order” meant to shield the Narendra Modi government against “criticism and hard hitting truth”.
Earlier in the day, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted the “definition” of unparliamentary as “words used in discussions and debates to accurately describe the PM’s handling of the government, now banned from being spoken”. “New Dictionary for New India,” he wrote on the micro-blogging platform.
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