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With the opposition sticking to its demand for the resignation of Union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti for making controversial remarks, there was pandemonium in the Lok Sabha for the second day today.
Members from Congress, Trinamool Congress and RSP staged a walkout after government said that the matter should end as she has already apologised and the Prime Minister has disapproved of her comments.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi present in the House after his week-long tours, opposition members vociferously pressed for a statement from him.
They questioned as to how he was allowing a minister, who uses such abusive language, to remain in his ministry.
BJP members countered strongly the opposition attack on Jyoti, who was present in the House.
Refusing to accept the opposition demand, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said the matter has ended as she has already apologised and the Prime Minister has disapproved of her comments.
Countering the opposition, he referred to an incident during UPA rule when a central minister had allegedly made derogatory comments against Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which led the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to apologise in the House as the minister had refused to do so.
Naidu also reminded the protesting Trinamool Congress MPs about the reported remarks of party MP Tapas Pal at a public meeting where he had allegedly threatened CPI-M cadres and their family members with rape and violence.
Anguished over the government response, the opposition members including those from the Congress, TMC and Left staged a walkout.
