Manjinder Singh Sirsa Thrown Out of Delhi Assembly

NEW DELHI, India—The Delhi legislator Manjinder Singh Sirsa was reportedly thrown out of the Delhi state assembly on January 3 for demanding removal of assembly speaker for dropping the line from the Resolution which read that “this House also resolved that Centre should withdraw Bharat Ratna from the then acting Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi”. His turban reportedly went off during this manhandling but he again placed it on his head and kept on saving it.

A video of Manjinder Singh Sirsa’s manhandling in the Delhi state assembly by the marshals has gone viral over social media in which Sirsa could be seen as being lifted and thrown out of the assembly by the marshals on the order of AAP legislators.

It has come to fore that the ruckus began when Sirsa demanded a response to his request for the removal of the Speaker. Notably, Sirsa had demanded removal of the Speaker in a notice submitted to the Secretary of the Delhi Legislative Assembly on December 24 for dropping the line from the Resolution which read that “this House also resolved that Centre should withdraw Bharat Ratna from the then acting Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi”.

Following the request, Speaker Mr. Ram Niwas Goel said he cannot accept it as such a notice has to be given 14 days in advance and he only received the notice on December 24.

BJP lawmakers — Vijender Gupta, Sirsa and Jagdish Pradhan — then questioned the House on the removal of the demand from the resolution.

When the Speaker turned down their request, Sirsa went near the Speaker’s podium, prompting Mr. Goel to order the three BJP legislators to be marshaled out and also their suspension. Thereafter, Mr. Goel adjourned the House for 15 minutes.

Interacting with media outside the Delhi state assembly, Manjinder Singh Sirsa said that the content of the resolution was changed as the AAP wants to forge alliance with the Congress in the upcoming parliamentary elections. He added that the AAP lawmakers encouraged the marshals to manhandle the elected members.

On the other hand, the AAP legislator Saurabh Bhardwaj said that the marshals were requesting Sirsa to go out after the House was adjourned. “Sirsa abused the marshals and manhandled them. He also stuck his leg in the chair purposely. He started shouting that his turban was being removed forcefully, while no one was touching his head or turban” he claimed.