Deputy Speaker M Thambidurai today found himself in a tight spot with a BJP member accusing him of having two standards, one when he is presiding and the other when only a member.
"You are a different person here and a different person there," remarked Virendra Singh when Thambidurai asked him to limit himself to posing questions and not delivering a speech.
This happened when Thambidurai, in the Chair, allowed members to ask questions to Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Ananth Kumar after his reply to a debate on budgetary allocations of his ministry.
Thambidurai told Singh that making a speech was not allowed and he should only ask question.
Opposition members demanded that Singh's remarks should be expunged.
At another point, Banshilal Mahto, a BJP member from Chhattisgarh tried to make a point about generic drugs by opening a pack of medicines in the House.
The Deputy Speaker disallowed him from opening the pack.
Mahto, a medical practitioner by profession, later went to Ananth Kumar to show the medicine pack.
Besides Chemicals and Fertilisers, Kumar's ministry also looks after pharmaceuticals.
