Nishikant Dubey crosses all limits of decency
Mutual respect in politics is gradually becoming a thing of the past. This time, the BJP MP from Godda in Jharkhand, Nishikant Dubey crossed all limits. He referred to a woman MP of Bengal and a woman MLA of Jharkhand as “Vaishali ki nagar badhu”, a phrase in Hindi implying a ‘prostitute’.
The MP did not name the persons, but by common consent, considering the events of the last few days, they are Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra and Congress MLA Dipika Singh he was referring to.
In a recent series of tweets, supported by documentary evidence, Moitra had shown that the Godda MP’s claims, in his Lok Sabha election affidavits from 2009, 2014 and 2019, of having done a part-time MBA from Delhi University and an MBA from Pratap University were highly questionable.
She had ended with this: “And people who have fake degrees & have lied on affidavits should definitely not throw the rule book,” referring to Dubey’s demand in front of a parliamentary panel of terminating Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha membership over his speech on the Adani-Hindenburg matter.
Dipika Singh had shared screenshots of Moitra’s tweets and called Nishikant Dubey “Farzikant Dubey’, playing on the words ‘farzi’, meaning ‘fake’ and ‘Nishikant’.
Delhi Commission for Women Chairperson Swati Maliwal took high umbrage at Dubey’s tweet. Quote-tweeting his tweet, she said (translated from Hindi) that “[n]o matter how big the differences in politics are, the level of the language should not fall.” She further said in her tweet that “[c]omparing a woman MP to a ‘nagarbadhu’ is highly condemnable,” for which Nishikant Dubey must “[i]mmediately apologise to the country”.
So did Nishikant Dubey sacrifice decency to show his masculinity, being unable to bear the audacity of a woman questioning his credentials? But he may have forgotten that the place for people with his mentality is not inside Parliament, but outside it, in fact, even in jail.
