New Delhi : The BJP on Thursday accused a Trinamool MP of smoking an e-cigarette inside the Lok Sabha premises. BJP MP Anurag Thakur raised the issue without naming the Trinamool leader and urged the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to take note of the violation. This is for the House to know that e-cigarettes are banned in the country. I want to ask the Lok Sabha Speaker whether he has allowed smoking e-cigarettes in the House. A TMC MP has been smoking e-cigarettes for days inside the Lok Sabha, Thakur asked the Chair.
If such an incident is brought to my notice with clarity, appropriate action will follow, Birla said. The allegation came against the backdrop of a nationwide ban on electronic cigarettes. India outlawed e-cigarettes under the Electronic Cigarettes (Prohibition) Act, 2019, making their production, sale, import, export and advertising illegal, with jail terms and fines prescribed for violations.
Amit Shah said that the issue has been raked up as Congress can no longer win elections by “corrupt practices”, and asserted that the reason for the grand old party’ defeat in recent polls was its leadership, not EVMs or “vote chori”. If someone asks a question in a presser, he is dubbed as a BJP agent, if they lose a case, they accuse the judge, if they lose an election, they blame EVMs.
Now, when the EVM blame does not hold, they brought up vote chori… still, they lost Bihar. Now the reason for your defeat is your leadership and not EVM or voters’ list,” the Home Minister said. Interrupting his speech, Rahul Gandhi challenged Shah to debate with him on his three press conferences in which the Congress leader alleged voter theft by the BJP in collusion with the Election Commission.
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