While reacting over the pepper spray incident in lok Sabha, the Bihar Chief Minister on Friday strongly condemned it. He said that every political party and members should sit together to ensure such incidents would not be repeated in future. He also advocated for self-regulation by the members of House.
“I donot find words to condemn such an incident but whatever has happened is unprecedented and should not have happened…it can’t be pardoned”, said Nitish Kumar on the sidelines of the Bihar legislative Assembly.
Kumar, who had been member of lok Sabha four times and Union Cabinet Minister thrice during NDA Government also said that there was a need for self-regulation by the people’s representatives so that such a situation was not repeated in future.
When asked was there any need of frisking the Parliamentarians too, Nitish Kumar said, "Intensification of frisking of the House members will not solve the problem as the solution lies in the self-regulation of behaviors”.
“The need of the hour for everyone is to sit and ponder over the incident to avoid its recurrence in future”, he added further. Every member has a constitutional right to express ones views in Parliament or any other legislative body but it should be within the laid down decorum and tradition, he said.
The nine-day Budget session of the Bihar legislature began on Friday with the Governor’s short speech. The Opposition parties have decided to raise issue uncomfortable to the State Government.