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RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav says Mahua Moitra’s ‘Bihari gunda’ jibe is ‘saddening’
Bihar’s Leader of Opposition Yadav further said that one must refrain from making such comments and that he condemns if anyone has made such a statement.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday deprecated Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra for reportedly using the ‘Bihar Gunda’ jibe on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey by terming it as “saddening,” news agency ANI reported.
Addressing the media, Bihar’s Leader of Opposition said, “It is saddening if someone has said such a thing. One must refrain from making such comments, I can only condemn if anybody makes such a remark.”
Tejashwi added that Bihar is the “mother of democracy and the state has a glorious past” and its contributions to the building of the nation have remained “unparalleled.”
However, when asked if RJD will break ties with TMC over Moitra’s comment, Tejashwi said that the statement didn’t arrive from TMC or the party chief Mamata Banerjee. “It is an individual’s comment,” he further told the media persons.
The incident unravelled on Wednesday after Dubey and Moitra engaged in a war of words on Twitter, with the former alleging that the TMC MP called him “Bihari gunda” thrice in the meeting of the IT committee. In his tweet where he tagged Moitra, Dubey said that her jibe has exposed TMC’s hatred towards north Indians and the Hindi-speaking people of the country.
However, Moitra replied by saying that she is a “bit amused” by the name-calling charges as the IT meeting didn’t happen because “no quorum members did not attend.” “How can I call someone a name who was not even present! Check attendance sheet,” she wrote in her reply on the microblogging site.
The heated argument, however, erupted at Parliament itself, when the BJP leaders boycotted the IT committee meeting and denied signing the attendance register. Dubey gave a notice to move a privilege motion against the removal of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor as the head of the committee. The committee, of which both Moitra and Dubey are members, was scheduled to hold talks regarding Pegasus snooping row, but it was cancelled owing to BJP MPs not signing the attendance register.
