{"id":484054,"date":"2023-08-10T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T04:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=484054"},"modified":"2023-08-10T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T04:32:31","slug":"flying-kiss-row-smriti-irani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/flying-kiss-row-smriti-irani\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s \u2018flying kiss\u2019 row: DCW Chief Swati Maliwal questions Smriti Irani over Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh sexual harassment case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Union minister Smriti Irani claimed that Congressman Rahul Gandhi gave the Treasury benches a flying kiss as he left the Lok Sabha following his speech during the no-confidence motion debate on Wednesday, Swati Maliwal of the Delhi Commission for Women responded angrily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maliwal said, So much fire was started by a purported flying kiss flung into the air. Brij Bhushan, a male, is seated two rows back. The person who called Olympic wrestlers into the room, touched their chests and waists and abused them sexually. Why not express your anger at what he did? A significant political controversy over the Congress leader&#8217;s behaviour prompted a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Swati Maliwal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maliwal was referring to allegations of sexual harassment brought against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the departing president of the Wrestling Federation of India and a member of parliament for the Bharatiya Janata Party, by six prominent wrestlers, including Olympic medalists Bajranj Punia and Sakshi Malik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0939\u0935\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092b\u0947\u0902\u0915\u0940 \u0939\u0941\u0908 \u090f\u0915 \u0915\u0925\u093f\u0924 flying kiss \u0938\u0947 \u0907\u0924\u0928\u0940 \u0906\u0917 \u0932\u0917 \u0917\u0908\u0964 2 row \u092a\u0940\u091b\u0947 \u090f\u0915 \u0906\u0926\u092e\u0940 \u092c\u0943\u091c\u092d\u0942\u0937\u0923 \u092c\u0948\u0920\u093e \u0939\u0941\u0906 \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u091c\u093f\u0938\u0928\u0947 \u0913\u0932\u092e\u094d\u092a\u093f\u092f\u0928 \u092a\u0939\u0932\u0935\u093e\u0928\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u0915\u092e\u0930\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0941\u0932\u093e\u0915\u0947 \u091b\u093e\u0924\u0940 \u092a\u0947 \u0939\u093e\u0925 \u0930\u0916\u093e, \u0915\u092e\u0930 \u092a\u0947 \u0939\u093e\u0925 \u0930\u0916\u093e \u0914\u0930 \u092f\u094c\u0928 \u0936\u094b\u0937\u0923 \u0915\u093f\u092f\u093e\u0964 \u0909\u0938\u0915\u0947 \u0915\u0930\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u090f \u092a\u0947 \u0917\u093c\u0941\u0938\u094d\u0938\u093e \u0915\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0902 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0906\u0924\u093e?<\/p>&mdash; Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwatiJaiHind\/status\/1689317850929098752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gandhi&#8217;s flying kiss during the Lok Sabha&#8217;s discussion of the no-confidence motion drew severe criticism from the treasury benches. Irani labelling him a misogynist and stated the House had never seen such an indecent act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla was confronted by BJP women MPs who called for stringent action against Gandhi for his inappropriate gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gandhi was accused of acting in a indecent manner that not only insulted the dignity of women members in the House, but also brought shame and lowered the dignity of this august House, according to a complaint signed by more than 20 women parliamentarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gandhi was defended by the Congress, which said that the BJP was engaging in indecent behaviour by accusing him of misconduct because it did not want a discussion about the violence in Manipur. Gandhi, the Congress claimed, never insulted women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manickam Tagore, the whip for the Congress in the Lok Sabha, accused Irani of having Rahul-phobia and urged her to overcome it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maliwal was referring to allegations of sexual harassment brought against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the departing president of the Wrestling Federation of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":484057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[151796,148971,148922,110,67061,22,84314,152000],"yst_prominent_words":[3813,42564,3814,22098,5035,23854,8726,83888,44636,44632,9326,70542,8975,4331],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/08\/10100005\/1675510137_irani-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484054"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=484054"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=484054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->