New Delhi: A heated exchange erupted in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday when senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad demanded that Congress General Secretary and MP from Alapuzha, K.C. Venugopal’s speech be struck off the record.

Prasad argued that Venugopal, being a petitioner in a pending Supreme Court case on the appointment of Election Commissioners, had “no moral right” to speak on the same subject in Parliament.

Responding to the objection, Lok Sabha Chair Krishna Prasad Tenneti assured the House that the records would be examined and appropriate action taken, setting the stage for a possible precedent in Parliamentary practice.

Prasad’s intervention came during a debate on electoral reforms, where he accused the opposition of questioning the credibility of the

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