Parliament is not a photoshoot centre for sure but merely because I have been clicking photos, people are talking about it. Lets take the entire thing positively...Nusrat Jahan, Member of Parliament as told to India Today
Both Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan won their Lok Sabha seats for the TMC by sizeable margins with May 27 being their first day in Parliament. Day one as Member of Parliament called for at the very least some selfies outside India’s great democratic institution, don’t you think? Yet there was something wrong with their selfies apparently. Though what exactly it was, we are still scratching our heads to find out.
Oh, we get it. Apparently their ‘poses’ reminded folks of a photoshoot, and people felt they needed to remind these newly minted MPs they were not in a beauty pageant. How refreshing.
And then there was the ever-present fashion police
A little reminder...these women actually, canvassed, campaigned and won. In other words they have earned their seat inside Parliament. But in your books it looks like they have not earned their right to choose what to wear on their first day at the new job.
And then there were of course the usual unparliamentary comments that are not just reserved for parliament but for women anywhere. Jobless political “commentators” opined that these new MPs will bring ‘drama’ and ‘entertainment’ to the Sansad, incentive even for male MPs to attend sessions.
But wah, trolls, wah. Your imagination is so...original, NOT!
But a sight for sore eyes was the outpouring of proud, congratulatory messages.
Mimi Chakraborty contested from Jadavpur while Nusrat Jahan contested from Basirhat Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal Bengal. Nusrat Jahan won by 3,50,369 votes from Basirhat, while Mimi Chakraborty's margin of victory was 2,95,239 votes.
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