The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubeyon Wednesday moved a privilege motion against Shashi Tharoor and demanded the removal of the Congress MP from the post of Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT).

The notice request given to the Lok Sabha Speaker reads, "Needless to say that this 'gentleman' has not only disrobed the democratic functioning of an August Committee but also exhibited an extreme high level of sycophancy towards his political masters, who still have a false notion of ruling our country and its democratic institutions by way of destroying them bit-by-bit and also creating a ruckus through their cronies like the present Chairperson of the Committee on Information Technology."