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Mahua Moitra Hits Back at BJP, Asks ‘Do I Need to be a man to…’

February 8, 2023
Bharat Times English News

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday (February 8, 2023) hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders for using the word “objectionable” in her speech during the debate on ‘Motion of Thanks’ I went. President’s address in the Lok Sabha. Moitra cited past instances of BJP leaders using objectionable words in the House and said she said “one apple, one apple”.

After this, there was a heated argument between TMC and BJP leaders on Tuesday. Moitra was heard using offensive words To which the Speaker objected and urged the members to refrain from profanity.

When asked about the incident, Moitra said, “It is a gentleman who has called farmers brokers…Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has called Dr. Santanu Sen completely derogatory words in Rajya Sabha. This is not the first time on record profanity has been used.” Or harsh words have been used in Parliament.”

He said, ‘I laugh at the fact that BJP is saying ‘how can this woman being a woman use such words’. So I think his patriarchy comes out,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

“I said an apple, an apple and I stand by it,” she insisted.

The TMC MP also said that he only regrets that the opposition was not aggressive enough to bring up the “Adani scam” a little earlier in 2021-22.

He said, “I think we should have been equally aggressive this time also, so that the people of India do not suffer a loss of 100 billion dollars.”

Meanwhile, Ramesh Bidhuri, who had a heated exchange with Moitra during and after her speech in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, slammed the TMC MP and said that people send us to Parliament as their representatives and we have to behave within the decorum of the House. Must work

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“The people of the world are watching us. Women always maintain dignity… Our culture is like this. My father used to say that a person acts according to his DNA. If you ask a lion to meow, it will not Will do, he won’t.” Will only roar. If she thinks her thinking is right then why did Sudip Bandyopadhyay have to apologise?

earlier on tuesday Moitra launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi-led government on the Gautam Adani-Hindenburg issue and said that the billionaire businessman had taken the country for a ride.

Without naming Adani, he said that a famous person whose name starts with ‘A’ and ends with ‘I’ and is not Advani, who reeks of crony capitalism, has cheated everyone.