Speaker Om Birla's response to Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury: Chanting of religious slogan won't be allowed

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mentioned a couple of times in the past that voice of every parliamentarian would be heard, but chanting of religious slogans and heckling during the oath-taking ceremony on Tuesday was not inspiring. The issue of sloganeering was mentioned by the Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who didn't find it in the "spirit of multi-party democracy". Adhir Ranjan raised this concern on Wednesday in his welcome address to the speaker on Wednesday.

Some Trinamool MPs responded with chants of their own in response to the slogans from the treasury benches.
Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla has decided not to allow such political tactics to take place in the Parliament. “I don’t think Parliament is the place for sloganeering, for showing placards, or for coming to the well. There is a road for that where they can go and demonstrate," Birla said after his unanimous election as speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha.

The pro tem speaker, Virendra Kumar, did the right thing by expunging the calls from treasury benches that confronted MPs including United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi, All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen leader Asaduddin Owaisi and Trinamool Congress MPs, Birla told Hindustan Times during an interview.

Om Birla has stated: "Parliament is a temple of democracy. This temple always functions by parliamentary rules".