Bahujan Samaj Party MP Danish Ali.
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In response to the letter written by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla where he has alleged that BSP MP Danish Ali used derogatory words against PM Modi, Ali said that an attempt is being made to create a narrative which will lead to his lynching.
“The BJP is building a narrative through which they plan to lynch me outside the Parliament. The whole country is witness to my verbal lynching inside of the Parliament. Every other day, we hear news of Muslims being lynched; these actions are leading to such an eventuality,” Ali told DH.
BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri’s communal slurs against Ali during the last day of the Special Session of the Parliament has led to a furore. Ali said that the allegations of disruptions against him are being made to turn the public perception, but that he was discharging his Parliamentary duty.
“As an elected representative of the people, I have a duty to point out when members are misleading my house, the BJP is calling that disruptions,” he said.
Ali pointed at two instances – the first he said was when the home minister Amit Shah spoke about the population of Hindus in Pakistan when the Partition took place. “He said that the Hindus in Pakistan were around 17% but he included the Hindus in East Pakistan, too, which later became Bangladesh. I rose to correct him, is it not my duty,” Ali asked.
Recounting another incident, Ali said that during the discussion on the women’s quota bill, he said that Shah said that the women’s quota bill was first introduced in 1996 by former PM Deve Gowda, and that the Congress was in the Opposition. “That’s incorrect and I pointed out to him that the Deve Gowda government was in power with the support of Congress, while the BJP was in the Opposition. The home minister corrected himself,” Ali said.
He added that he interjected during a speech by Nishikant Dubey as well. “After Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi finished, when Dubey rose to speak, I pointed out that Sansad TV was running a ticker of the government’s achievements. Was that wrong? I have disrupted because it shows my vigilance and intelligence. This is a right that the Constitution of India and parliamentary democracy has given me,” Ali told DH.
Responding to the letter written by BJP MP Ravi Kishan on Sunday, Ali said that Kishan is not the only one who has complained. “BJP MP Brij Bhushan, who is accused of molesting wrestlers, has called me a repeat offender. It is my Parliamentary duty to stop the treasury benches from misleading the House,” Ali said.
Ali also took to X to say that the principle of ‘Res ipsa loquitur’, which means ‘the thing speaks for itself’, applies to Dubey’s allegations. “What has happened is a blot and absolutely undeniable. Fictionalising the events and playing with the facts will not work this time,” Ali said.