Shocker for AAP MLAs’ kin

Jupinderjit Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 22

Nine-year-old Parneet Kaur, a daughter of AAP MLA Jai Kishan Rodi, today visited the Vidhan Sabha along with her mother Neelam and younger brother Sukh Dilan Singh to see her father participate in the Budget debate.

Being under 12 years of age, she and her brother could not go inside the House but they were shocked when they heard cries and a commotion shortly after the session began. They ran towards the door of the House only to see their father being forcibly carried out by five or more marshals.

The stunned children hugged their mother. Neelam, a housewife, said ever since her husband was elected as an MLA, they looked forward to watch the House proceedings. “He talked highly about the proceedings. We hoped we will hear speeches of intellectuals. Instead, we felt we had come to a mohalla,” said Neelam.

She said she thought her children would be motivated to become future leaders but such conduct would only bring goons to politics.

AAP MLA Pirmal Singh, whose turban was also thrown into the air by the marshals, said his relatives had come to watch the proceedings but were traumatised. Pirmal, who was earlier president of the Unemployed Linemen Union, said he had been picked up and beaten up by the police a number of times but never had been humiliated in this way. “We were peacefully demanding revocation of the suspension of two members when the Speaker ordered our eviction. We thought there was democracy in the Assembly but it isn’t,” he said.