Live: Arun Jaitley Backs Smriti Irani Over ‘Durga’ Comment
“HRD Minister must apologise for the blasphemous comments about Goddess Durga,” says Anand Sharma.
Smriti Irani over the “Durga” comment said, “The statement was signed by JNU students, it was not a mere pamphlet.”
Yechury replied to Irani saying, “I beseech you, please do not pass unverified statements as evidences.”
Jaitley Backs Irani
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley supported Smriti Irani on the ‘Durga’ comment. He responded to Sitaram Yechury saying, “Every word that the Minister has spoken has been authenticated. If you have said something, authenticate that.”
Yechury replied, “She quoted Macbeth – foul is fair and fair is foul. She is making all that is foul, fair.”
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CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury blamed government in the Rajya Sabha for the recent death of the Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad University.
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Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 2.30 pm.
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I Am Myself a Durga Worshipper: Smriti Irani
“It is a tradition of the House that no blasphemous things will be said here,” said the Rajya Sabha Speaker.
“I agree that the Mayawati’s demand for a Dalit person will be responded to, I made the observation that the government may consider this,” said Rajya Sabha Speaker.
Mayawati had demanded that a Dalit person to be made a part of the inquiry committee in the Rohith Vemula case.
Anand Sharma Demands Apology From Irani Over Durga Comment
Smriti Irani responded saying, “I myself am a Durga worshipper, I said it with a lot of pain”.
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According to Smriti Irani the Telangana police had told the state High Court that no doctor was allowed near Rohith Vemula’s body. In a fiery speech in Parliament, she also said that no doctor had gone near Rohith’s body until 6.30 am the next day.
However, the doctor on duty at the University of Hyderabad refuted Irani’s claims.
The JNU row and the suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula dominated the discussion in the Parliament for the second consecutive day on Thursday. On a day when Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu present the Railway Budget 2016, the House witnessed repeated adjournments and exchange between the treasury and opposition benches.
While the Opposition accused the BJP of trying to suppress dissent and impose their idea of a “theocratic, fascistic Hindu Rashtra” on the country, the government maintained that hate speech cannot be free speech.
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