Bharatiya Janata Party MP Anurag Thakur on Thursday accused an opposition lawmaker – from Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress – of smoking e-cigarettes in the Lok Sabha.
Thakur made the accusation during Question Hour, asking Speaker Om Birla if these were allowed in the House. When Birla replied in the negative, Thakur said a Trinamool MP – whom he did not name – had been “smoking e-cigarettes in the House for the past several days”.
“E-cigarettes are banned across the country… yet you have allowed them in the House? Trinamool MPs have been sitting and smoking them for several days… e-cigarettes are being smoked in the House. Please investigate this immediately,” Thakur piped up.
That accusation prompted other BJP MPs to stand up and complain too, triggering a brief uproar to add some variety to other often chaotic scenes that unfold regularly in Parliament.
