Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, urging him to remove Congress' Shashi Tharoor as the chairman of the parliamentary panel on IT. Dubey's letter to Birla comes after Shashi Tharoor said he would summon Facebook officials over allegations of bias favouring the BJP and its leaders. The BJP MP from Godda in Jharkhand alleged that Tharoor had shown “terrible disdain towards established” parliamentary institutions in summoning Facebook. He has asked the Lok Sabha speaker to persuade Tharoor to proceed on leave under rule 258(3) of the Rules of the Procedure and Conduct in Lok Sabha. He has also requested the Speaker to invoke Rule 283 with provisions in rules of procedures for removing Shashi Tharoor as the chairman of the IT panel.

Source: dna August 20, 2020 11:37 UTC