BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri, whose egregious communal comments in parliament have ignited massive outrage, received a warning today of “severe action” from Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. His comments have been expunged from the records.

Confronting a backlash, the BJP sent a show-cause notice to its MP asking him to explain his unparliamentary language within 15 days.

The Speaker, according to officials, took serious note of the offensive words used by Ramesh Bidhuri for Muslim MP Danish Ali (BSP) during a discussion on the “success of Chandrayaan”, and warned him of “strict action” if he repeated such behaviour.

In a video from Lok Sabha, Mr Bidhuri repeatedly hurls abuses and Islamophobic slurs
at Danish Ali while making a point.
“The fact that it happened in a new Parliament building under your leadership is
heartbreaking for me as a minority member of this great nation and as an elected MP,”
Danish Ali wrote to the Speaker, urging him to refer the incident to the privileges
committee