New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- Congress women Members of Parliament have written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, accusing him of making "false, baseless and defamatory" allegations against Opposition women MPs under pressure from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and of failing to safeguard the parliamentary rights of the Opposition.
In a strongly worded communication on Monday, on the letterhead of Congress MP S Jothimani, the women parliamentarians expressed "deep anguish" over what they described as an unprecedented denial of democratic space in the Lok Sabha, particularly the repeated refusal to allow Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi to speak during the discussion on the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address.
"The Speaker's Chair is a...