The meeting was also attended by TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee, who was suspended for a day for his unruly behaviour during the meeting. Banerjee injured himself after smashing a glass water bottle during an argument with BJP MP and former judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay.Speaking about the sequence of events that led to his outburst, Banerjee said, “On that day, there was a heated exchange of words between Congress’ Nasir Hussain and Abhijit Gangopadhyay. I said why was Gangopadhyay shouting? He started abusing me, my mother, my father and my wife… After the chairperson came, he was harsh towards me but soft towards him. This frustrated me,” he said.On allegations of throwing the bottle at the panel chairman, he said, “I never had the intention of throwing the bottle at the chairperson. The chairperson has no power to suspend the members, only the Speaker does.”
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