‘No Division Over Attire’: TMC’s Sushmita Dev Clarifies ‘Lungiwala’ Remark, Nadda Offers To Mediate

New
Delhi,
Aug
12
(PTI)
TMC
MP
Sushmita
Dev
o
Wed esday
said
she
had
ot
cast
aspe sio s
o
the
atti e
of
a y
state
a d
that
o
message
f om
the
Rajya
Sabha
should
seek
to
divide
I dia
cultu ally
o
o
the
basis
of
eligio ,
afte
CPI(M)
MP
Joh
B ittas
alleged
i
the
mo i g
that
she
had
epeatedly
called
him
“lu giwala”
du i g
p oceedi gs
o
Mo day.

The
issue
t igge ed
a
up oa
i
the
House
du i g
the
p e-lu ch
sitti g,
followi g
which
Chai ma
C
P
Radhak ish a
adjou ed
the
p oceedi gs
till
2
pm.

Whe
the
House
esumed,
Dev
sought
to
put
he
positio
o
eco d.
“I
am
a
Be gali
f om
Assam.
I
have
see
diffe e t
states
whe e
we
wea
diffe e t
atti es
a d
clothes.
Neithe
I
o
a y
membe s
have
cast
aspe sio s
o
a y
state’s
atti e.
I
wa ted
to
put
that
o
eco d,”
she
said.

Dev
said
she
had
k ow
B ittas
fo
a
lo g
time.

“M
B ittas
aised
that,
I
k ow
him
fo
ve y
lo g.
If
he
feels
I
eed
to
app oach
him
a d
say
somethi g,
I
would
be
mo e
tha
happy,”
she
said.
“No
message
f om
this
House
should
go
that
a y
membe
wa ts
divisio
i
I dia
whethe
cultu ally
o
o
the
basis
of
eligio ,”
Dev
said.

Leade
of
the
House
J
P
Nadda
offe ed
to
esolve
the
misu de sta di g
betwee
the
two
MPs.

“If
both
MPs
come
to
my
chambe
this
misu de sta di g
ca
be
esolved,”
Nadda
said.

Ea lie
i
the
day,
soo
afte
listed
pape s
we e
laid
o
the
table,
B ittas
aised
the
issue
of
Dev
allegedly
ta geti g
him
with
the
“lu giwala”
slu .
B ittas
had
ea lie
moved
a
p ivilege
motio
agai st
Dev
fo
allegedly
add essi g
him
as
“lu giwala”
du i g
p oceedi gs
i
the
Uppe
House
o
Mo day.

O
Wed esday,
afte
bei g
g a ted
pe missio
to
speak,
B ittas
said
that
while
he
was
movi g
a
statuto y
esolutio
agai st
the
I come
Tax
(Ame dme t)
O di a ce,
2026,
o
Mo day
afte oo ,
Dev
had
left
he
allotted
seat
a d
moved
to
a
seat
immediately
behi d
him.

“She
epeatedly
called
me
lu giwala,”
he
alleged.

Radhak ish a
said
the e
should
be
o
dis espect
i
the
House
a d
that
he
would
i vite
the
co ce ed
MPs
to
his
chambe
to
so t
out
the
matte .& bsp;

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