Following the uproar over the derogatory remarks by BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri in the Lok Sabha against BSP MP Danish Ali, the BJP on Friday issued a show-cause notice to its MP seeking a reply in 10 days as to why no action should be initiated against him, reports The Indian Express.
The BJP MP had made the remarks on late Thursday night during a discussion on the Chandrayaan 3 mission. The remarks were expunged by the Speaker who also issued a warning to Bidhuri.
In his letter to Speaker Om Birla seeking action against Bidhuri, Ali said that words the BJP South Delhi MP used against him were “B**** (pimp), K**** (circumcised one), M**** ugravadi (Muslim terrorist), atankvadi ( terrorist) etc”.
“I write to you with deep anguish regarding the speech given in the Lok Sabha by an MP of the BJP, Mr Ramesh Bidhuri… During the course of his speech, he directed the most foul, abusive invectives against me,” he said in the letter.
“The fact that it has happened in a new Parliament building under your leadership as Speaker is truly heartbreaking for me as a minority member of this great nation and an elected Member of Parliament as well,” he added.
Asked about action against Bidhuri, BJP national spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said, “The party condemns any kind of abusive language. Taking cognisance of an unparliamentary word used by a BJP MP, the party’s national president has sent him a show-cause notice and asked him to respond in 10 days. So, politicising this issue should be stopped.”
Bidhuri is a second-term Lok Sabha member and had been a member of the Delhi assembly three times before he successfully contested parliamentary election for the first time in 2014. He is a considered a grassroots leader within the party but is seen as a habitual offender when it comes to using objectionable words against rivals.
The controversy comes 14 months after the BJP expelled two prominent faces from the party for remarks against Prophet Muhammad and the Muslim community, which threatened to cast a shadow on the Modi government’s overtures towards the Middle East.