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BJP MP Phangnon Konyak claimed Rahul Gandhi misbehaved with her at a protest against the farm laws outside the parliament. In his letter to the Rajya Sabha Chairman, Konyak said, he personally felt that Gandhi’s behaviour, especially touching her hand made her very uncomfortable.

 

Konyak is a member of Rajya sabha representing Nagaland, he described the incident which happened during BJP and congress MP’s protest.

 

She said that she was close to Makar Dwaar holding a placard and Rahul Gandhi and other members of his party came close to her. Konyak accused security personnel of providing MPs a passage and still, Gandhi and his colleagues crossed her path.

 

Gandhi in his interaction with her was lewd, and his actions were unprofessional, according to Konyak in her complaint. He screamed at me, swore at me, and was standing so close to me, that a woman feels threatened by such behaviour Innovation Studies, paper III, by Maria Cioaba: Western Skripka 184.

 

 

The BJP MP said she felt terrible, but had no choice but to let go and, in effect, relinquish her democratic rights. But she threw this disclosure as a warning that no Member of Parliament should be seen as conducting himself/herself in a certain manner.

 

I resigned with a very sad feeling but I believed that none of the MPs in this country should conduct himself or herself in such a manner.”

 

Konyak, an ST woman, airing her resentment, spoke in person and said that as a woman, and a tribal woman at that, she felt she had been demeaned by Gandhi. She asked the Chairperson of Rajya Sabha to safeguard her and other activists’ rights and status as Members of Parliament.

 

In her words made in Rajya Sabha, Konyak reinforced her sentiments saying that she was capable of defending herself but it was still, ‘very unbecoming’ of Gandhi to adopt such behaviour.

 

She said that she had bitten her tongue and that despite being provoked she would not degrade herself and make petty remarks because of her position but the unpleasant ordeal left her very disappointed. ‘No lady member especially an ST lady member, should be treated this way,’ she stated.