New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): Shambhavi Choudhary, the Lok Janshakti Party MP said on Monday that her priority will be to raise the voices of women and youngsters in Parliament.
Speaking with ANI, Choudhary said, "Raising the voices of women and the youth in the Parliament will be my priority. I am a Dalit and I believe that people in our community are not as privileged as I am as I have been able to reach this place. I will try to become a strong voice for them and will fulfil the demands of the people of Samastipur."
She added further, "I am the daughter of Bihar and Samastipur and I will bring the enthusiasm of a daughter to the House."
In the 18th Lok Sabha elections, Shambhavi Choudhary had defeated Congress' Sunny Hazari with a margin of 1,87,251 votes. Choudhary had received 5,79,786 votes while Hazar secured 3,92,535 votes.
Earlier today, the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha commenced with various prominent leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, taking oaths as Members of Parliament.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing mediapersons ahead of the commencement of the Parliament Session took an indirect jab at the Congress over the Emergency imposed in 1975, calling it a "blot" on democracy "when the Constitution was discarded".
"Tomorrow is 25th June. 25th June marks 50 years of the blot that was put on the democracy of India. The new generation of India will never forget that the Constitution of India was completely rejected, every part of the Constitution was torn to pieces, the country was turned into a prison, and democracy was completely suppressed," he said.
"While protecting our Constitution, while protecting the democracy of India and the democratic traditions, the countrymen will take a resolution that no one will dare to do such a thing in India again, which was done 50 years ago. We will take a resolution of a vibrant democracy. We will take a resolution to fulfill the dreams of the common people as per the directions of the Constitution of India," PM Modi said.
Meanwhile, amid the row over the appointment of Bhartruhari Mahtab as a pro-tem speaker, INDIA bloc leaders on Monday carried out a protest holding copies of the Constitution inside the Parliament premises in the national capital.
The opposition has been protesting against the central government's decision to appoint seven-term BJP MP Bhartruhari Mahtab as Pro-tem Speaker of Lok Sabha over senior-most Dalit MP Kodikkunnil Suresh of Congress, saying that the appointment by the BJP deviates from the traditional practice of appointing the senior member. (ANI)
