'Indecent': BJP MPs file complaint against Rahul Gandhi over flying kiss in Parliament

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Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Shobha Karandlaje and other party women members on Wednesday filed a complaint with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla against Rahul Gandhi over what they allege was his 'indecent' behaviour and 'inappropriate' gestures towards Union Minister Smriti Irani in the House...

Shobha Karandlaje submitted the letter signed by 21 women BJP members at the Speaker's chamber, demanding stringent action against Rahul Gandhi...

"We demand stringent action against such behaviour by the member, which has not only insulted the dignity of the women members in the House, but also brought disrepute and lowered the dignity of this House," the letter read...

According to people who witnessed the moment, when Rahul Gandhi was leaving the Lok Sabha premises after his no-trust motion speech, he dropped a few files and as he bent over to pick them up, a few BJP MPs started laughing at him...

Lashing out at Rahul Gandhi over the flying kiss, Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani called him a "misogynistic man" and said it was an obscene act...

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