'One cigarette won't…': TMC MP's pollution quip after smoking row in Parliament

Smoking of e-smoking, inside and outside the Parliament building, becomes latest row between BJP and Trinamool Congress as election-bound Bengal stays in focus

There remains suspense on which Trinamool Congress leader was his target when BJP MP Anurag Thakur accused “a TMC MP” of smoking an e-cigarette inside the Lok Sabha on Thursday, but senior TMC Saugata Roy sought to blow the whole row away after he was seen smoking a cigarette outside the Parliament building later.

Asked to clear the air on Friday, Saugata Roy highlighting instead the air pollution in the national capital. “There is nothing in this so-called accusation,” he told reporters. “Smoking cigarettes inside the House is forbidden. There is no restriction on smoking cigarettes outside the House in this open area,” he insist