Delhi Speaker Vijender Gupta Warns AAP Legislator Jarnail Singh For Taking Photo In Assembly

New Delhi: The Delhi Assembly on Monday witnessed noisy scenes after AAP legislator from Tilak Nagar Jarnail Singh used his mobile phone to take a photo and post it with a message on social media.

Speaker Vijender Gupta asked Jarnail Singh to apologise for violating rule 261 (25) of the House and directed him to delete the tweet.

Singh expressed his regret over the matter but said he was trying to show the absence of ministers from the House — a charge denied by Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa.

Sirsa corrected Singh that there was no moment when no Cabinet member was present in the House. “I was entering the House at the time when Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was leaving,” he said.

A ruling party member said Jarnail Singh’s phone be seized and the matter be referred to a committee but the Speaker let off Jarnail Singh after he expressed regret. Speaker Gupta warned Jarnail Singh and informed all members that clicking photos in the House amounts to a breach of privilege.

He clarified that the live video streaming of the proceedings of the House is legal visual content as it is done with his permission but no member can take personal photos or make videos.

Earlier, during the discussion on the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Performance Audit on ‘Public Health Infrastructure & Management of Health Services’, BJP legislator Mohan Singh Bisht hit out at the previous government for lacking a policy to use the money provided by the Central government for saving people suffering from Covid-19. (IANS)

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