Benny Behanan. File Photo.
The Ernakulam MP Hibi Eden and Chalakudy MP Benny Behanan lashed out at the Central and State Governments for being omitted from the dias where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to launch four projects in Kochi on Sunday.
Breach of privilege
Both Mr Eden and Mr Behanan had petitioned the Lok Sabha Speaker, while Mr Eden also moved a privilege motion, citing breach of Parliamentary privilege and gross protocol violation on the issue. Both of them kept away from Sunday’s function.
Addressing mediapersons here on Sunday, the MPs said that it is a mandatory protocol that MPs from a region be provided a seat on the dais for such functions. “Of the four launches, three projects fall in Ernakulam and the fourth - of BPCL in my constituency. Leave alone this, neither of us was invited either. On the contrary, Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muralidharan, who was elected to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra, was accommodated in the d
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