Sagar and Manoranjan who jump inside the Lok Sabha from the visitors gallery as a huge security breach in Parliament had their passes from Pratap Simha, a BJP MP from Mysuru.
When a Parliament member issues such a pass to individuals, they have to give an undertaking that they personally know the person.
Pratap Simha has drawing flak after the visitors’ pass recover from the intruders reveal his name.
As he did not issue any statement on his connection with the two intruders, Pratap Simha said to Lok Sabha Speaker that the father of one of them belong to his constituency and sought a visitor’s pass.
Pratap Simha inform the Speaker that he had no additional information about the intruders.
As Manoranjan D, was in constant touch with Pratap Simha’s PA to get the visitor’s pass for him and his friend Sagar.
About BJP MP Pratap Simha
- A 47-year-old BJP MP Pratap Simha represents the Mysore-Kodagu constituency in the Lok Sabha.
- Pratap Simha is a popular BJP leader in Mysuru and won both the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
- The journalist-turn-politician made his political debut in the 2014 election before which he was working with Kannada Prabha.
- In 2015, Pratap Simha was appoint as a Press Council of India member.
- Pratap Simha was against the government’s decision to celebrate Tipu Sultan’s birthday as he said Tipu Sultan can only be the role model for the Islamists.
- Early in 2023, Pratap Simha is a animal lovers as he said the dog lovers would understand the menace of stray dogs once their children are bitten.
- Stray dogs should be eliminate without any compassion, he said.
MP Pratap Simha said :
“We are unable to take any action because of animal lovers. They realise the problem when stray dogs bite their children. Feeding stray dogs will not bring any good and it is not as big a social service as they try to project it as,”.
- Another controversial statement Pratap Simha gave was on dome-shape bus stations as he threaten to demolish them for their mosque-like look.
Pratap Simha said :
“I have seen gumbaz-like structures in bus shelters, one big gumbaz in the middle and two small on both sides of it. It is nothing but a masjid (mosque). The engineers have to remove this type of shelters. Otherwise, I’ll bring JCB and bring them down,”.
Pratap Simha’s office said MPs generally keep such requests from the people of their constituencies.
At 6.15pm on 13th December 2023, after the security breach, Pratap Simha post a photo with the political science students of the Vidyavardhaka College taken probably to indicate how MPs receive many entry requests.
With Vidyavardhaka College Political Science students on Monday. pic.twitter.com/TOoepq5z3E
— Pratap Simha (@mepratap) December 13, 2023
