New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party MP Danish Ali, who had to hear Islamophobic slurs and abuses in Parliament from BJP leader and MP Ramesh Bidhuri in the Special Session of Parliament in October, has written to the Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Prakash Birla, on the “violation of established parliamentary procedures’’ in the conduct of the proceedings of the privileges committee and the ethics committee.Ali is a complainant against Bidhuri in the privileges committee. He has raised the point that the committee has heard the “accused” member (Bidhuri) without hearing him.In the matter of the complaint filed by Ali and several other Opposition MPs against Bidhuri for his abuse against Ali, related specifically to his faith, the privileges committee has surprisingly heard the BJP MP – but Ali has not been heard as yet. Bidhuri has meanwhile been assigned charge of the BJP election in Tonk, seen as an area where Muslims are significant in terms of their presence and impact on electoral politics. Rajasthan votes on November 25.Ali has compared what the privileges committee is doing in his case with what is happening in the ethics committee. The matter of Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra where she is alleged to have asked questions in lieu of favours has been handed to the ethics committee — where the complainant, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, has been given pre-eminence, and called in “to present oral evidence on October 26”, reports The Telegraph.Ali also happens to be a member of the ethics committee. He also expressed concern over the chairman “openly” speaking to the media “stating that he has received an affidavit in connection with a complaint of alleged ethical misconduct against Ms. Mahua Moitra’’.Moitra had also pointed to the impropriety of the ethics committee going public in her case.Also read: Ramesh Bidhuri Has Exposed the Real Face of the BJP, Beyond PR Charm Offensives, Studied SilencesAli in his letter is reported to have said that the established Parliamentary procedure is to call the complainant before the panel first, before calling in to hear the accused. “However, in contravention of all set norms, the member, who is accused of making unbecoming remarks against me, appears to have been called and it is proved by the fact that I have not been called for the committee to place my position till now,” said Ali.The Hindu reports that Bidhuri “was called by the Privileges Committee on October 10 but he skipped the meeting, citing a “pressing commitment”.”No meeting of the privileges committee has been called after that one.
