As the Winter Session of Parliament continues to witness stormy exchanges between the treasury and opposition benches, 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.

Birla responded firmly, saying there is no rule or precedent that allows any Member of Parliament to smoke inside the House. "If such an incident is brought to my noti

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