TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Friday took a dig at the BJP for alleging that Congress MPs protesting under the Gandhi statue in Parliament complex a🦩te chicken.
The demonstration is being held against the suspension of 2🦩4 MPs -- 20 from Rajya Sabha and four Con💟gress members from Lok Sabha.
Without taking any names, Moitra hit out atඣ BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla, who raised the issue on Thursday, and Union Minister Smriti Irani, whose 18-year-old daughter has been accused of running an "illegal bar" in Goa by the Congress.
"BJP's hired help commenting on what food suspen𓃲ded MPs eat on dh💫arna. Silly Souls! Don't you know your masters serve both tongue & cheek ?!" she tweeted.
"Silly Souls" is the𒊎 name of the place being linked tꦆo Irani's daughter.
Earlier, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi accused the Congress of insulting Mahatma Gandhi by consuming chicken while sitting under the statue of the seeker of no❀n-violence.
"Far from discussi💝ng public issues, insulting the great personalities of the country has become a habit of the Congress," he saꦐid in Hindi.
The TMC served tandoori chicken to the protesting MPs on Wednesday, and fish fry on Thursday. It is, however, not clear if the Congresꦺs leaders ate any of the non-v✨egetarian food.
(With PTI inputs)
