MIMICRY OF VP DHANKHAR GIVES NDA POLITICAL AMMUNITION

The BJP is now also looking at turning the mimicry episode into an issue of disrespecting the entire Jat community.

- RAHUL CHHABRA

In the final stages of the just-concluded Winter Session of Parliament, the row over a Trinamool Congress MP mimicking Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and Rahul Gandhi video recording the act on his mobile phone seemed to have armed the BJP-led NDA political ammunition to counter the showdown scripted by the Opposition after the suspension of 142 MPs over Parliament’s security breach issue. Also, the ruling party now appears to be gearing up to turn the episode into a matter of Opposition’s disrespect towards the entire Jat community which Dhankhar represents.

While the BJP is insisting that Rahul, by making a video of TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee who mimicked VP Dhankhar, fuelled this act of insult, the Congress leader has said he simply shot a video of the suspended MPs sitting in the Parliament complex.