Mann asked to reappear on Monday

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 28

The parliamentary panel, constituted by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to examine if Aam Aadmi Party’s Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann’s act of filming the Parliament House complex and posting it online compromised its security, has summoned the MP again on Monday. Sources said, “There were many contradictions in his deposition before the committee today.”

Panel chairman Kirit Somaiya said: “On the very onset he questioned the very need for the panel, then offered an unconditional apology and then made all-out efforts to link his own act with the Prime Minister allowing Pakistan’s ISI to enter the Pathankot airbase. This was disapproved by all nine members on the panel.”

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Reports suggest the committee members also met officers’ in charge of security in Parliament. Mann can’t attend the House proceedings till a decision on the matter is reached.