A day after Parliament published a bulletin saying the House can not be used for demonstration or dharna, TMC MP Mahua Moitra responded angrily and said why not just remove Gandhi’s statue from the premises and erase Article 19(1).

The Parliament in a bulletin published on Thursday said members cannot use the precincts of the House for any demonstration, dharna, strike, fast, or for the purpose of performing any religious ceremony.

The TMC lawmaker shared the bulletin on Twitter and wrote: “Why not just remove Gandhiji’s statue from the premises? And erase Article 19 (1) of the constitution.”

In another tweet, Moitra said Prime Minister Modi performed a religious ceremony on top of the new Parliament Building just four days ago. She was referring to

Later, the Lok Sabha Secretariat clarified that such a process is a routine one and guidelines are issued before every session of the Parliament, suggesting that it was not a fresh order.

This comes days after a massive controversy erupted after Parliament put out a list of some words – like ashamed, abushed, betrayed, corrupt – that were not permitted during the proceedings of the House. The Opposition said the government had banned these words.

Commenting on reports of banning these words, Moitra in a tweet said: “You mean I can’t stand up in Lok Sabha and talk of how Indians have been betrayed by an incompetent government who should be ashamed of their hypocrisy?”

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla later said no words had been banned. He said earlier a book of such unparliamentary words used to be released. “To avoid wastage of papers, we have put it on internet. No words have been banned, we have issued a compilation of the words that have been expunged,” he said. The Speaker further said that if the opposition had read the 1100-page dictionary comprising unparliamentary words, they would not have spread misconception.