Parliament video row: Speaker forms probe panel, asks Bhagwant Mann not to attend Lok Sabha
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha Speaker on Monday told disgraced Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwat Mann to not attend Parliament until a panel investigating his security-breach video submits its report.
The 9-member panel is expected to submit its report by August 3.
The Aam Aadmi Party MP last week filmed a video clip of his journey from his residence to Parliament House and shared it on social media. The video, showing various high security areas in Parliament, put the security of Parliament “in peril”, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said.There was uproar in Parliament over the video and MPs called for strict action against the AAP MP.
On Friday Mahajan summoned and admonished Mann who told the Speaker that he had made the “mistake inadvertently” and had no intention of compromising the security of Parliament.
“I apologise unconditionally. I will not repeat it in future,” he said in his letter submitted to the Speaker for filming his route to Parliament, access and security details of the complex and uploading it on social media.
Mann said when he was coming to the House to attend Zero Hour he made the video “by mistake” as “I did not know that it is against the rules”.However, the Speaker, who saw it as “grave misconduct” and that it was “too serious” a matter considering that Parliament has been attacked by terrorists once.
Mann’s action is seen as violative of two specific rules of Parliament rules — 334(A) which ‘prohibits advance publicity’ and 352 which says ‘inter alia video/tape recording should not be done’.
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