Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Monday advised Aam Aadmi Party MP Bhagwant Mann not to attend Parliament until a panel set up to probe the video arrives at a decision. The panel will submit the report on August 3.
Meanwhile, Lok Sabha Speaker formed a nine-member panel to probe Bhagwant Mann’s breach of security posting a video of Parliament’s interiors. “A nine-member committee will probe and submit its report to the house over AAP MP Bhagwant Mann’s video,” Sumitra Mahajan informed the house.
Reacting to the suspension, Mann cried foul, saying: “All parties ganged up against AAP in Parliament. I had sent a written apology to the Speaker but it wasn’t enough. Decision is not against me but AAP which is opposing the Modi government.”
The AAP MP from Punjab stoked a controversy after he shot a video clip of his journey from home to Parliament House, including movement past various security check points, and posted it on the social media, drawing flak from various quarters for putting Parliament complex security in danger.
The Speaker had sought his explanation on the video and 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.
