As chairman Jagdeep Dhankar called out Jawhar Sircar to speak, someone interrupted saying “on a lighter note” and Jaya Bachchan inquired if he got a lunch break today.
“Did you get a lunch break today?” she asked Dhankar.
Signaling her to pause to put on the headphones, Dhankar said, “Let me be serious at your lighter note.”
“Sir, main Jaya Amitabh Bachchan apse puchti hun … (Sir, I Jaya Amitabh Bachchan would like to ask you),” the Samajwadi MP remarked as the whole House, including Dhankar, broke out into laughter.
She, still laughing, repeated the question, “Did you get a lunch break today sir?”
On getting a no in reply, she quipped, “Tabhi aap baar baar Jairam ji ka naam le rahe hai (That is why you are calling Jairam ji again and again).
“Unke naam liye baigar aapka khana hazam hi nhi hota (It seems your food does not get digested till you take his name).
On Jaya Bachchan’s remark, Dhankar said, “Should I tell you a fact on a lighter note?”
“I did not have lunch at recess break but had it later with Jairam ji,” he said as the MPs continued to laugh.
“And let me tell the distinguished honorable member, this is probably the first chance … I am your fan, as well as Amitabh ji’s fan,” he added.
Upon hearing this Jaya Bachchan responded with folded hands and asked, “Why first chance?”
“Aisa koi couple mujhe mila nahi aur (I have never met any other couple like this),” Dhankar said.
“Tabhi mera aise (That’s why my name is like this) … got it,” the Samajwadi MP said thanking Dhankar for explanation.
After this brief interruption, Dhankar finally called Jawhar Sircar to speak again.
Jaya Bachchan gets annoyed in Rajya Sabha
On Monday, Jaya Bachchan on got annoyed at the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman as he called her to speak by saying ‘Jaya Amitabh Bachchan. In no time after deputy chairman’s address, she raised a strong objection to “being identified with her husband’s name”. “Sir, sirf Jaya Bachchan bolte to kaafi hojata (Saying only Jaya Bachchan would have sufficed),” the Samajwadi leader said.
Laughing at the remark, Harivansh Narayan Singh, who was in chair at that time said, “Your full name was written here, I just repeated the same.”
“Ye jo hain kuch naya tarika hain ki mahilaayen apni pati ke naam se jaani jaye. Unka koi astitva nahi. Unki koi upalabdh hi nahi hain, apne mein aur astitva nahi hain. (This is a new method that the women will be known by the names of their husbands, they do not have any identity of their own),” Bachchan said. “They (Women) do not have any achievement of their own, they do not haqve any identity of your own,” she said.
Singh, however, tried to calm the situation by saying, “You have many achievements.”
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