BJP MP Bidhuri uses communal slurs in Lok Sabha; Opposition seeks his suspension, BJP sends show cause notice

Crude and communally charged slurs in Hindi to target Muslims were used by BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri on the floor of the Lok Sabha against Bahujan Samaj Party MP Kunwar Danish Ali late on Thursday evening, creating a political storm. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s expressions of regret right after the communal slurs were used were “insufficient” and that Bidhuri be suspended from the Lok Sabha. The judge asked, “If the court was to put a question about whether the case is fit for arguments on the point of charge, you are going to answer while you address the arguments on charge?” Replying in the affirmative, Special Public Prosecutor Prasad said he would “demonstrate from the chargesheet the way things have opened up and why multiple chargesheets have come and how these chargesheets are not overlapping ”. Rahul Gandhi urges Centre to implement women’s reservation Bill immediately The Congress “regrets” that the UPA didn’t include separate quota for women belonging to other backward classes and pass the women’s reservation Bill, party leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday even as he asserted that his party would carry out a caste-based census if it comes to power. Later, we got to know it was the women’s reservation Bill.” Stating that there were footnotes that the Bill will be implemented after Census and Delimitation, the leader said, “The Bill is a distraction from the caste census demand.” Stating that MPs are mere statues in the House, he said, “MPs don’t have any power in the law-making process.” “Officers of OBC, Adivasis and Dalits control 5% of the Budget, the Prime Minister keeps saying that he is an OBC leader, so I want him to explain why there are only three officers at the top, the first step is to find the number of OBCs through a caste census,” Gandhi said.