NB Viewpoint | Rajya Sabha Chairman mockery: PM Modi, President extend support to Jagdeep Dhankhar

Dhankhar who is also Vice President of India, on the X platform wrote, "Received a telephone call from the Prime Minister, Shri @narendramodi Ji. He expressed great pain over the abject theatrics of some Honourable MPs and that too in the sacred Parliament complex yesterday".

"He told me that he has been at the receiving end of such insults for twenty years and counting but the fact that it could happen to a Constitutional office like the Vice President and that too in Parliament was unfortunate," Dhankhar was quoted as saying on X.


Droupadi Murmu, President of India also lashed out at the opposition for mimicking Jagdeep Dhankhar. President wrote on the X platform, "I was dismayed to see how our respected Vice President was humiliated in the Parliament complex. Elected representatives must be free to express themselves, but their expression should be within the norms of dignity and courtesy".


Yesterday, the Rajya Sabha Chairman suspended Trinamool Congress leader Kalyan Banerjee who mimicked Dhankhar during the opposition's protest on the stairs of Parliament.


Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was seen making a video of the performance by Banerjee who appeared to mimic the way Dhankar walked by leaning forward and made reference to having a spine. Dhankhar said he was hurt as his farmer and Jat backgrounds were targeted. Gandhi on Wednesday rejected to comment on the matter.