{"id":314249,"date":"2019-07-26T12:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314249"},"modified":"2019-07-26T12:40:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:40:55","slug":"sp-mp-azam-khan-asked-to-apologise-for-sexist-remarks-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sp-mp-azam-khan-asked-to-apologise-for-sexist-remarks-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"SP MP Azam Khan asked to apologise for sexist remarks in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314250 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/azam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/azam.jpg 374w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/azam-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Azam Khan on Friday has been asked to apologise in the Lok Sabha for his sexist comments made during a debate on the Triple Talaq Bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Speaker called the meeting after MP&#8217;s in Lok Sabha, including ministers, demanded strict action against Azam Khan&#8217;s remarks on Rama Devi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Ministers\u00a0Smriti Irani and Nirmala Sitharaman\u00a0were among the leaders who demanded an apology from the SP leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Smriti Irani\u00a0said Azam\u2019s comment was a blot on\u00a0all legislators, including men. We cannot remain silent spectators to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She further added the entire nation watched what happened. She warned Khan that he can&#8217;t misbehave and get away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Numerous members from various parties, including the BJP, Congress, NCP, Trinamool Congress, BJD had urged the House to send a strong message against such conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe look towards you, I appeal to you for exemplary action against Azam,&#8221; said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to Speaker Om Prakash Birla in the Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Azam Khan on Friday has been asked to apologise in the Lok Sabha for his sexist comments made during a debate on the Triple Talaq Bill. The Speaker called the meeting after MP&#8217;s in Lok Sabha, including ministers, demanded strict action against Azam Khan&#8217;s remarks on Rama Devi. Union Ministers\u00a0Smriti Irani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[8835,406,11508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314251,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314249\/revisions\/314251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}