Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla assured action on BJP leader Anurag Thakur's accusation of TMC MP smoking banned e-cigarettes in Parliament.
Without taking names, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Anurag Thakur on Thursday accused a Trinamool Congress MP of smoking banned e-cigarettes in the Lok Sabha.
On Anurag Thakur's accusation, Speaker Om Birla assured action but not before disciplining him for questioning the Speaker of the House for asking a question.
During the Question Hour of Parliament Winter Session, Thakur wondered whether e-cigarettes are allowed in the House while asking a supplementary. E-cigarettes were banned in the country a few years ago.
When Birla replied in the negative, the BJP MP said a TMC member has been "constantly smoking e-cigarettes in the House for the past seve

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