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The party believes in being more tolerant and does not want to flex muscle through the notice, said Abhishek Banerjee. (file)
The Opposition on Tuesday moved a no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla with signatures from all INDIA bloc members, except the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which said it would like to wait for a few days to give the Chair time to reconsider the issues.
TMC Parliamentary Party Leader for Lok Sabha, Abhishek Banerjee, made it clear that the party “believed in being more tolerant” and did not want to “flex muscle” through the notice. “The Congress will be able to answer. My stand is we should be seen as someone who is more tolerant—and we are. Otherwise, what is the difference between the BJP and us? We have always represented …and are always tolerant. Always shown restraint. We have belief in the ideology of Mahatma Gandhi…and we also have immense respect for the Chair and the institutions,” Banerjee said, speaking to reporters in the Parliament complex.
“So, our approach has always been constructive, calibrated. Instead of trying to flex muscle, we want to give the opportunity to the Chair. If our issues are not addressed in three days, then we can always move a no-confidence motion against the Speaker…,” he added.
Sources told The Indian Express that the TMC wanted to give Birla seven days to consider the issues being raised before moving ahead with the motion. “We don’t think it is wise to be so hard on the Speaker over the issues raised by the Congress and other parties,” said a TMC MP.
Asad Rehman is with the national bureau of The Indian Express and covers politics and policy focusing on religious minorities in India. A journalist for over eight years, Rehman moved to this role after covering Uttar Pradesh for five years for The Indian Express. During his time in Uttar Pradesh, he covered politics, crime, health, and human rights among other issues. He did extensive ground reports and covered the protests against the new citizenship law during which many were killed in the state. During the Covid pandemic, he did extensive ground reporting on the migration of workers from the metropolitan cities to villages in Uttar Pradesh. He has also covered some landmark litigations, including the Babri Masjid-Ram temple case and the ongoing Gyanvapi-Kashi Vishwanath temple dispute. Prior to that, he worked on The Indian Express national desk for three years where he was a copy editor. Rehman studied at La Martiniere, Lucknow and then went on to do a bachelor's degree in History from Ramjas College, Delhi University. He also has a Masters degree from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. ... Read More
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