Congress MP serves privilege notice against Kejriwal
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Congress MP Sajjan Singh Verma has served a privilege notice against Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal for calling MPs ‘rapists, murderers and looters’ during an election campaign rally last month.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat has sought reply from Kejriwal following the receipt of the notice from Verma, a Congress MP from Madhya Pradesh's Dewas, a Team Anna member said here on Saturday. This will be the second time Kejriwal has been served a privilege notice in the past seven months.
Earlier in September last year, Kejriwal was served a notice for making ‘derogatory’ remarks against Parliamentarians during Hazare's agitation in Ramlila Maidan in August.
In his notice, Verma has mentioned Kejriwal's speech in a rally in Ghaziabad last month in which he called MPs ‘rapists, murderers and looters’, evoking sharp reactions from politicians.
"In this Parliament, 163 members have cases of heinous offences against them. In this Parliament, rapists are sitting, murderers and looters are sitting. How can you expect Jan Lokpal Bill to be passed by Parliament? How can you expect that you can get reprieve from poverty and corruption," Kejriwal had said on February 25.
Kejriwal said he would send a reply to Parliament in the next few days.
Reacting to the notice, he tweeted, "Can you trust country in the hands of such people, even if they are accused? I am scared; I won't have the courage to do that. Raja indulges in corruption. When I say he is corrupt, they say I insulted Parliament."
He demanded that fast track courts be set up and clear all pending cases against MPs and MLAs in six months.
"Let them sit in Parliament only after being cleared from courts." I'm asked – charges not proved against them yet? My response – charges will never be proved. They will never make speedy criminal justice system," he said.
"Did these 163 MPs insult that temple of democracy by sitting there or did I insult Parliament by raising this question? Did High Commands of various parties who gave them tickets insult Parliament or did I insult Parliament?"
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