Tandoori chicken row: Mahua Moitra reminds BJP of Mahatma Gandhi’s real ideals

The Trinamool Congress MP pleaded with the ruling party to put aside the chicken dish and consider the much greater harm being done to Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals, which include non-violence, truth, swaraj, and simplicity.

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Mahua Moitra also detailed the threat Gandhi’s ideologies were experiencing under the current government. Using non-violence as an example, she wrote about the practice of using bulldozers to destroy the homes of accused dissenters, which was made popular by the Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh.

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Shehzad Poonawalla claimed, based on media sources, that several suspended MPs participated in a “farce and a picnic” in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament by eating “tandoori chicken”. The BJP leader said, “As per media reports, some suspended MPs protesting in front of Gandhi statue in Parliament consumed tandoori chicken. Everyone knows Gandhiji had staunch views on the slaughter of animals. Many people are asking if this was a protest or a farce and a picnic.”

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In the Parliament compound, five suspended MPs spent the night next to the Gandhi statue.TMC MP Sushmita Dev and one of the suspended lawmakers, labelled it a “lie”. She claimed that because of inflation, government officials, including ministers, have lost credibility. “They don’t have an answer, hence this propaganda. People and ministers of the RSS eat everything behind closed doors. So, don’t make a comment on our food,” Dev said.

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On July 28, three more MPs—two from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and one Independent—were accused of interfering with the Rajya Sabha’s business and were expelled for the rest of this week. With this action, there were now 23 MPs who had been suspended from the Rajya Sabha as of July 26.

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