Monkey enters reading room of Parliament and leaves after half an hour through VIP gate

An adult monkey sneaked into the Parliament for a sudden visit and entered the Parliament House library adjoining the Central Hall. From there, it found its way into the reading room meant for MPs and journalists and roamed around for half an hour before leaving.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 29 July 2016.

The monkey jumped on the tables and climbed up electrical wires in the gallery area and again climbed down and unable to locate the exit from the library, it made its way out of the main door and through the green-carpeted corridor. It was there for nearly half an hour and finally left by the main gate of the building on the side meant for VIPs.
The hapless library staff contacted Parliament security but there was no help forthcoming because there was no way to catch such monkeys in the absence of a langoor. These had been deployed earlier to deal with the recurring monkey menace but, in June, their services were terminated.
The langoors had been employed to chase away monkeys in parts of Lutyens' Delhi. Sources in the Lok Sabha secretariat have revealed that monkeys are reappearing in the premises of the Parliament since langoors took their last pay and bid goodbye.


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Nearly a month back there were allegations leveled against some MPs of the Trinamul Congress (TMC) that they had accepted money from some agency - it was the Narada sting operation and the matter had been referred to the ethics committee of the Lok Sabha by the Speaker.
BJP MP Arjun Ram Meghwal who is a member of the Lok Sabha ethics committee has indicated that, prima facie, the video footage appear to be genuine and, therefore, notices have been sent to five Trinamul MPs.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 16 April 2016.

The five Trinamul MPs who have been sent notices have been members in the previous and current Lok Sabha. In case they do not respond to the notices, the ethics committee will go ahead with the probe. If it is proved that the transactions were unethical, they could be expelled.
Meghwal has gone on to add that the examination of the tapes is still on and the committee will look into all aspects before taking a decision. The Narada tapes had come to surface on March 14 and showed images resembling 11 Trinamul MPs, MLAs and ministers and three party functionaries accepting wads of cash from a journalist who was posing as the agent of a fictitious company.
The conversation in the Narada sting was, apparently, carried out before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and the release of the tapes ahead of the Assembly polls in Bengal has put Trinamul in a spot of bother.


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