New Delhi: Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday lashed out at the Opposition in Lok Sabha as it protested on the Pegasus issue while junior minister Bharti Pawar was replying to a question in the House.
This was Pawar's first oral response to a question in the Lower House of Parliament. She was inducted into the Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet last month after a reshuffle in the Council of Ministers. Just as an Adivasi (tribal) woman stood to reply, opposition members did not allow her to do so and this is an 'insult' to her, Mandaviya said as he came to the minister of state (MoS) for health's defense.
When Lok Sabha convened for the day, questions for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare were first on the list during the Question Hour. Pawar started replying to a question, but members of the opposition raised the Pegasus snooping and farm laws issues and protested against the government.
The MoS was replying to a supplementary question on institutional deliveries and maternal mortality and she said the opposition does not have the courage to listen to the work done by Prime Minister Modi for the protection of women and children.