Venkaiah Naidu pulls up Minister for using 'I beg' to lay papers in Parliament

New Delhi, July 19 Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu today pulled up Union Minister Jitendra Singh for using the "colonial" expression of "I beg to" while laying official papers on the table of the House. At the point when the House met for the day, Singh laid the papers concerning the Department of Space, saying that "I beg to lay papers listed against my name...".

This led Naidu to state "we have given up begging one year back. You are slacking." He said members can simply express that "I ascend to show a report and so forth. They require not ask," he said.

Naidu said however the articulation "I ask to.." was not unparliamentary, it would be "legitimate to Indianise it".

After taking over as the Rajya Sabha Chairman a year ago, Naidu had prompted pastors and individuals not to utilize the expression "ask" while tabling the listed official papers in the House.

As a practice, most of them earlier used to state "I beg to lay the papers ... Listed against my name in today's order paper."

Naidu had asked members to shed the "magnificent outlook" of using "I beg to lay" the papers in the House.

Almost all have taken after Naidu's directions however there have been incidental slip-ups.

Minister of State for Law and Justice P Chaudhary had used the expression "ask" on the opening day of the Winter Session of Parliament in December a year ago, leading Naidu to remind him of the new norm.