New Delhi, March 10 -- Bharatiya Janata Party leader Praveen Khandelwal backed Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who during Lok Sabha proceedings, termed the Tamil Nadu government as "dishonest" and the people of the state as "uncivilised", saying that the latter has taken back the words he used in the Parliament.

"Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has made this clear in Parliament. He has taken back the words he used. The Lok Sabha Speaker has removed it from the proceedings. If a member makes a statement on a topic that has ended in Parliament, then I feel that parliamentary decorum is not being followed," Khandelwal told ANI on Monday.

Earlier, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan strongly criticized the Dravida Mun...