Who insults parliamentary procedures on daily basis, not us: Sibal

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday hit out at Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar over his criticism of Congress leader P Chidambarams remarks on the new criminal laws and said it was not the opposition that insults parliamentary procedures on a daily basisSibals remarks came a day after Dhankhar lashed out at Chidambaram over his comment that the three new criminal laws were drafted by parttimers terming it as inexcusable and urging him to withdraw his derogatory defamatory and insulting observationDhankhar had said he was shocked beyond words when he read Chidambarams interview to a leading national daily wherein he had said that the new laws were drafted by parttimersIn a post on X Sibal said Sunday Dhankar Criticised Chidambarams statement that parttimers drafted the three criminal laws was an inexcusable insult to the wisdom of Parliament We are all parttimers Dhankar jiAnd who insults parliamentary procedures on a daily basis Not us said Sibal a prominent Opposition voice and an Independent Rajya Sabha MPAddressing an event in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday Dhankhar had referred to Chidambarams remarks and said Are we parttimers in Parliament It is an inexcusable insult to the wisdom of the ParliamentI do not have words strong enough to condemn such a narrative being set afloat and an MP being labelled as a parttimerI appeal to him Chidambaram from this platform please withdraw this derogatory defamatory and highly insulting observations about the Members of Parliament MPs I hope he does it the vice president had saidEarlier amid the NEET row Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal has criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his silence on the issue Sibal urged PM Modi to accept that corruption is prevalent in the countryThe result of the NEETUG 2024 declared on June 4 caused an uproar amid several issues 1500 students received grace marks a high number of perfect scores and allegations of a leaked question paper Several petitions were filed in the Supreme Court and high courts by students seeking a retest alleging irregularities and discrepancies The SC has allowed retest of over 1500 students who got grace marksFirst of all the Prime Minister should come in front of the people in Parliament and say that yes we made a mistake Corruption has been going on in the country for a long time and it is prevalent in every department Until the government does not accept this matter there will be no solution to this Kapil Sibal said while speaking to ANI on Sunday from CaliforniaI remember that the Prime Minister had said that corruption in our ministries has been eradicated So it seems that this NEET is not a case of corruption this is a matter of goods and services Sibal quipped He further took a dig at the Prime Ministers silence over the NEET row and other issues like Manipur violence reported ANII will remind the Prime Minister of what you said if you see corruption taking place then you must comment on it in some way or another You always remain silent Whether it is about Manipur he remains silent or whether it is about terrorism he remains silent Terrorism will end cash transactions will end and corruption will also end We are watching all this he added reported ANISibal who is a former HRD minister said that the matter of NEET does not come under the purview of the HRD ministry but is a matter of the Health MinistryWith inputs from ANI and PTI