‘Indian variant’ tweet: Nishikant Dubey writes to Speaker seeking Shashi Tharoor’s disqualification from Lok Sabha

The BJP chief claimed that Tharoor has surpassed all the bounds of accountable behaviour.

In its persevering with offensive in opposition to the to counter the terming of COVID’s B.1.617 mutation because the ‘Indian variant’, BJP chief Nishikant Dubey has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urging him to disqualify Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over the problem. In his letter, Dubey claimed that Tharoor ‘surpassed all the bounds of accountable behaviour’ when he referred to B.1.617 because the ‘Indian variant of the coronavirus’.

Dubey claimed that Tharoor has wealthy diplomatic expertise and used the phrase ‘Indian Variant’ when the World Well being Organisation (WHO) itself clarified that there isn’t any such variant. He questioned within the letter why an Indian MP would use language that’s unscientific and derogatory in the direction of Indians. Dubey mentioned that at a time when the Authorities of India has already written to all social media platforms to take away utilization of this phrase, it’s embarrassing to notice {that a} member of Lok Sabha is utilizing ‘such discourse to disgrace the nation and its folks’.

The BJP chief claimed that Tharoor has surpassed all the bounds of accountable behaviour. He mentioned that Tharoor’s latest tweets are in a manner serving to enemy international locations to echo in numerous worldwide fora that India is an incapable nation with none imaginative and prescient.

This isn’t the primary time that Dubey has taken head-on Shashi Tharoor. Up to now, he had criticised Tharoor over a number of points together with these linked with the Data Know-how committee headed by Tharoor. Dubey had sought the elimination of Tharoor because the panel’s chief on many events.

The federal government has led a fierce counter in opposition to a number of Congress leaders who’ve brazenly known as the virus mutation because the ‘Indian variant’, together with former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath. Earlier final week, an FIR was filed in opposition to Nath for utilizing the phrase ‘Indian Variant’ for the B.1.617 variant.

Nishikant Dubey’s letter comes at a time when the saffron get together has launched a marketing campaign in opposition to the Congress accusing it of producing a ‘toolkit’ during which the opposition get together had urged social media influencers and overseas media to defame India and the PM Narendra Modi-led authorities for its dealing with of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.