Cong, RJD to pay for insulting Harivansh: Prasad
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 21
The “rough treatment” meted out to Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Singh by Opposition members in the Upper House on Sunday will be an election issue in Bihar, which will go to the polls in October-November.
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday gave a strong indication to this effect, saying Harivansh Singh hailed from Bihar. “People of Bihar are hurt at the humiliation Harivansh was subjected to. The RJD and the Congress will have to give an explanation to them,” Prasad said at a press meeting.
The press meet was convened in the backdrop of Opposition parties raising the pitch against the Centre and the BJP following the suspension of eight of their Rajya Sabha members for the rest of the monsoon session for their alleged unruly conduct at the time of passing of the farm Bills on Sunday.
Attacking the Congress and RJD, who are allies in Bihar, Prasad said their leaders encouraged the “humiliation” heaped on Harivansh Singh in the Rajya Sabha.
