Lok Sabha Speaker expresses displeasure at Rahul's hugplomacy
New Delhi, July 20 : Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Friday expressed her displeasure over Congress President Rahul Gandhi hugging Prime Minister Narendra Modi inside Lok Sabha, saying the gesture diminished the decorum of the House.
"Even I did not like it. There is a decorum (that we attach) to the Prime Minister's post. Inside the House, sitting in that seat, he is not Narendra Modi but the Prime Minister of India," she said.
The Speaker's observation came soon after the Lok Sabha was reconvened after a brief adjournment during Home Minister Rajnath Singh's speech.
Resuming his speech, Rajnath Singh said that some people had started the "chipko (hug) movement" inside the House.
Taking a cue from this, Mahajan intervened saying even she did not what Rahul Gandhi had done.
"You (Congress members) might have liked it but I did not. And especially the way he (Rahul Gandhi) winked after hugging the Prime Minister," she said, adding: "It is upto us to maintain the decorum of this House."
Mahajan said that Gandhi was like her son but she also deemed it her duty as a mother to polish his manners and etiquette.
Earlier in the day, after tearing into the BJP-led government in his speech during the no confidence motion, Gandhi walked across to the ruling benches and hugged Modi, taking everyone in the Lok Sabha by surprise.
After recovering from an apparent shock moment, the Prime Minister called Gandhi back towards him and the two shook hands. He patted Gandhi on his back and exchanged a word or two with him, smilingly.
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Manipur: Mortal remains of children killed in bomb attack handed over to family
Imphal (PTI): The mortal remains of two children, who were killed in a bomb attack in Manipur's Bishnupur district in April, were handed over to family members on Saturday, officials said.
The bodies of the five-year-old boy and his six-month-old sister were kept in the morgue for 25 days, as the family members had refused to accept the mortal remains, demanding that the perpetrators be brought to book at the earliest.
On April 25, Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh had appealed to the family members of the children to accept the bodies. Singh had also said that all efforts were underway to find the culprits.
The two children were killed in a bomb attack at Tronglaobi in Bishnupur district on April 7. Their bodies were kept in the morgue at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal.
The incident had triggered widespread violent protests in the five valley districts of Manipur, and the case was subsequently handed over to the NIA.
Hundreds of people lined up along the way to Tronglaobi to offer floral tributes, as the mortal remains were taken for the last rites in an open vehicle earlier in the day.
