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Kolkata, Jan 5 (PTI) TMC leader Kalyan Banerjee on Friday lauded Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s “great gesture” of wishing him on his birthday, days after the MP’s mimicry of the Rajya Sabha chairman snowballed into a political storm.
Banerjee was in the midst of a political storm after he mimicked Vice-President Dhankhar in the presence of Opposition leaders and MPs at the stairs of Parliament on December 19.
A political row erupted last week after Banerjee was seen mimicking Vice President Dhankhar while Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was filming the act on his phone, during a protest by suspended MPs at Parliament's Makar Dwar
Days after his mimicry on Parliament premises raised a political storm, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee has said he is "helpless" if someone "does not understand humour" and does not have a "cultured mind" to appreciate mimicry.
"You can put me in jail. I will not step back," said TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee who also slammed VP Jagdeep Dhankhar for getting upset over a trivial issue.