Phangnon Konyak, a BJP MP from Nagaland, filed a complaint with the Rajya Sabha Chairman on Thursday against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of misbehaving with her by standing too close and causing discomfort during the BJP and Congress’s simultaneous protests outside Parliament earlier on Wednesday. The incident occurred while the INDIA bloc MPs were condemning Home Minister Amit Shah’s statements about BR Ambedkar.
Phangnon Konyak Accuses Rahul Gandhi
Phangnon Konyak, a BJP MP from Nagaland, filed a complaint with Dhankar, stating that Rahul Gandhi’s behaviour and conduct had profoundly harmed her dignity and self-esteem. In her letter to the Rajya Sabha chairman, she alleged that Gandhi, along with other members of the Grand Old Party, misbehaved with her and made her feel ‘uncomfortable’ as she was opposing the Grand Old Party’s insult to Babasaheb Ambedkar.
“He misbehaved with me in a loud voice, and his physical proximity to me was so close that I, being a lady member, felt extremely uncomfortable,” she said. Konyak, the state head of the BJP Mahila Morcha in Nagaland, claimed that the incident occurred as she was protesting the Congress ill-treatment of BR Ambedkar at Makar Dwaar, the Parliament building’s main entrance.
She wrote that the security personnel had cordoned off the area and created a passage to the entrance for Hon’ble MPs of other parties. But Rahul Gandhi and other party members came in front of her despite there being a separate passage.