Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who heads Banga Janani Bahini, the women's wing of All India Trinamool Congress spoke on price rise in Lok Sabha and hit headlines as she produced a raw brinjal and bit into it to suggest that LPG prices were so much that she will have to eat the vegetable without cooking it. But what caught netizens' attention was her colleague Mahua Moitra, sitting beside her, moving her luxury bag from the seat next to her and placing it under the table.
Moitra, a TMC MP was called out by the netizens for apparently hiding her Louis Vuitton bag during a discussion on prise rise and inflation in the Lok Sabha.
"When Trinamool’s Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar was speaking on price rise, Moitra, sitting beside her, was caught on camera moving her bag from the seat next to her to near her feet under the table. Reports suggest that it was a Louis Vuitton bag priced at more than Rs 1.5 lakh," reported IANS.
Now, a video of Moitra moving her bag has gone viral on social media with netizens asking how could a Trinamool MP corner the government over the issue of price rise, when her colleague was carrying an expensive handbag, as reported by the news agency.
From the beginning of the Monsoon Session, the opposition parties have been targeting the government over price rise, inflation and other issues. After continuous disruptions, the government agreed to discuss the issue of price rise in the Lok Sabha on Monday and in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
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