The Trinamool Congress today came out guns blazing and demanded the immediate expulsion of the BJP MP from Mysuru Pratap Simha who had signed the parliamentary visitor passes of the two people who had jumped into the Lok Sabha gallery and burst smoke bombs.
Smarting from the disqualification of party MP Mahua Moitra on charges of breaching national security for sharing her login id and password, Trinamool leaders hit out at the BJP and at Home Minister Amit Shah for the security breach.
“Just days ago, our MP Mahua Moitra was expelled from the Parliament on the pretext that she had compromised national security by sharing her logic ID and password. BJP took a proactive step in getting Mahua Moitra expelled from the Lok Sabha. They must now show the same proactiveness in expelling one of their own.
Today, Pratap Simha issued visitor passes to intruders who invaded Lok Sabha mid-session. Is this not a security breach big enough for him to be expelled?” asked Trinamool Congress Minister Shashi Panja. Amit Shah’s MHA-controlled Delhi Police deserves an award for their extraordinary level of “alertness,” she added.
MP Kalyan Banerjee blamed Home Minister Amit Shah for the security lapse. “The entire building was made just to provide a platform for Narendra Modi. There is no security,” he said.
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, another Trinamool MP, said: “The BJP MP’s connivance brought in the miscreants and endangered the safety of the MPs in the House. Why should he not be punished?”
Another party MP Jawhar Sircar said: “It is a shame, a complete national shame that the highest institution of democracy was attacked today.
We don’t know if this was a mockery of the security arrangements, but what it means is that everybody in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha was under threat.
This is failure at the highest level and is a message that the ruling party should stop the bravado and get on with the job of providing real, proper security to the nation and its institutions.”
