New Delhi: BJP MP Anurag Thakur on Friday lodged a written complaint with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, demanding action against a Trinamool Congress lawmaker for allegedly smoking an e-cigarette inside the House.

Thakur on Thursday raised the issue in Lok Sabha without naming the Trinamool MP.

In his complaint, the Hamirpur MP said, \"A Member of Parliament belonging to the All India Trinamool Congress was seen openly using an electronic cigarette while seated in the House during the sittings.\"

The act was \"clearly visible\" to several members present in the House, he added.

Thakur said the \"open use\" of a banned substance and a prohibited device inside the 'sanctum sanctorum' of Indian democracy, the Lok Sabha chamber, constitutes not only a blatant violation of parliamentary decor

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