India, April 4 -- Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla on Friday criticised senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's remarks that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill was bulldozed through in the Lok Sabha, saying it was "extremely unfortunate" that the senior leader had questioned the House's procedures despite an extensive discussion and proper passage of the bill according to the rules.

Without naming Gandhi, who is a member of the Rajya Sabha, Birla said her statement was "neither appropriate, nor in accordance with the dignity of the parliamentary democracy".

At a meeting of party MPs on Thursday, Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi accused the Union government of bulldozing the bill in the Lok Sabha, called the proposed law a braz...