The Congress has filed a privilege plea against BJP leader Tarun Vijay’s appointment as head of the National Monuments Authority (NMA), claiming that he does not fit the conditions set out in a law passed by Parliament for the position.
On Thursday, Jairam Ramesh, the Congress’s chief whip in the Rajya Sabha, addressed a letter to Venkaiah Naidu, the head of Parliament’s Upper House, requesting the privileged move. Vijay, a former editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s periodical Panchajanya, the BJP’s ideological fountainhead, is unsuitable for the position, according to him. The appointment, according to Ramesh, is a mockery of the law.
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