New Delhi: Fresh charges were levelled against AAP MP Bhagwant Mann on Friday, by suspended AAP MP Harinder Singh Khalsa accusing him of attending the Parliament drunk. Mann is currently facing the heat for uploading a video in Facebook that many say will compromise the Parliamentary security.
“I have not made any complaint but have urged the Speaker and requested her to change my seat," said Khalsa, who was suspended from AAP for ‘anti-party activities’ in August 2015.
“I am a Sikh and it hurts my religious sentiments when Bhagwant Mann sits tipsy next to me. I request you to change my seat,” Khalsa reportedly wrote to the Speaker.
“I feel nauseous, disastrous. It is a torture, an atrocity. I sit on seat number 495 and come to Lok Sabha after performing puja-path. And then seat number 496 gives me nausea. Terrible foul alcohol smell makes it difficult for me to breathe,” The Indian Express quoted him as saying.
#WATCH Suspended AAP MP Harinder Khalsa says he can't sit next to #BhagwantMann, alleges latter smells of alcoholhttps://t.co/An2c2ikH17
— ANI (@ANI_news) July 22, 2016
Responding to Khalsa’s complaint, Sumitra Mahajan told reporters that she is also looking into complaints of Mann coming drunk at Parliament.
Meanwhile, a complaint has been registered against Mann at the Parliament Street Police station, in connection with the controversial video.
Read: Mann has vindicated public perception about AAP: Amarinder Singh
The case comes despite the AAP MP offering an unconditional apology to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan over his video.
According to sources, the Speaker was not impressed with Mann’s apology as his video was a serious matter concerning the security of the Parliament which had been attacked once.
Mann appeared before the Lok Sabha Speaker after being summoned over the video issue.
Sources in the Lok Sabha Secretariat said Mahajan had been trying to contact Mann since Thursday evening but his phone was not reachable. He could finally be contacted this morning.
The Speaker had sought his explanation on the video and Mr. Mann gave his views, they said.
In the nearly 12-minute video, Mann gives a running commentary as his vehicle crosses security barricades and enters Parliament. “I’ll today show you something you would not have seen earlier,” he is heard saying in the video.
Mann is then showed entering a room where questions to be taken up inside Parliament are being sorted and describes the process.
The issue led to the adjournment of House, first for an hour during Question Hour and then for the day.
