‘Don’t know the way it occurred’: BJP MLA caught watching porn in Tripura Assembly, get together seeks clarification
3 min readBy Express News Service
GUWAHATI: An MLA of the ruling BJP in Tripura claimed that he was inadvertently directed to vulgar content material after being caught watching porn on his cell phone within the Assembly.
“I was listening to the news. I don’t know how it happened. Perhaps, I wrongly pressed something,” the lawmaker – Jadab Lal Nath (55) – informed The New Indian Express on Thursday.
He was with the CPI (M) and he joined the BJP forward of the 2018 Assembly elections.
The incident, which came about on the second day of the Assembly session on Monday, got here to mild on Wednesday night after a video of it went viral on social media.
“I know I cannot watch this in the Assembly. This is a serious crime,” Nath mentioned, including, “I learnt about the viral video on Wednesday afternoon.”
He additionally mentioned that neither Assembly Speaker Biswabandhu Sen nor the Assembly Secretariat contacted him thus far.
“I will act as per the direction of the Speaker and my party president Rajiv Bhattacharjee,” Nath mentioned.
He mentioned Bhattacharjee had contacted him asking if he (Nath) was conscious of the viral video.
“I will meet the party president today and then decide on whatever I need to do,” the MLA additional mentioned.
The get together’s state management has sought clarification from him. Calls made to the Speaker went unattended.
In 2012, three BJP ministers in Karnataka had resigned after they have been caught on digital camera watching porn on their telephones throughout Assembly proceedings. Then in 2015, a Congress MLA in Odisha was suspended for seven days by the Speaker for the same offence.
GUWAHATI: An MLA of the ruling BJP in Tripura claimed that he was inadvertently directed to vulgar content material after being caught watching porn on his cell phone within the Assembly.
“I was listening to the news. I don’t know how it happened. Perhaps, I wrongly pressed something,” the lawmaker – Jadab Lal Nath (55) – informed The New Indian Express on Thursday.
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The incident, which came about on the second day of the Assembly session on Monday, got here to mild on Wednesday night after a video of it went viral on social media.
“I know I cannot watch this in the Assembly. This is a serious crime,” Nath mentioned, including, “I learnt about the viral video on Wednesday afternoon.”
He additionally mentioned that neither Assembly Speaker Biswabandhu Sen nor the Assembly Secretariat contacted him thus far.
“I will act as per the direction of the Speaker and my party president Rajiv Bhattacharjee,” Nath mentioned.
He mentioned Bhattacharjee had contacted him asking if he (Nath) was conscious of the viral video.
“I will meet the party president today and then decide on whatever I need to do,” the MLA additional mentioned.
The get together’s state management has sought clarification from him. Calls made to the Speaker went unattended.
In 2012, three BJP ministers in Karnataka had resigned after they have been caught on digital camera watching porn on their telephones throughout Assembly proceedings. Then in 2015, a Congress MLA in Odisha was suspended for seven days by the Speaker for the same offence.
