By IANS
Patna : The wife of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Rajesh Kumar Manjhi said Friday that his suspension from parliament because he pased off another woman as his wife won’t solve her domestic woes.
“His suspension is not the solution. It is not going to solve my domestic problems. I am not happy,” Pramila Kumari Manjhi told IANS, a day after her husband was suspended from the Lok Sabha for 30 sittings after being found guilty of helping another woman avail of medical facilities meant for his wife.
A parliamentary committee had recommended the MP’s suspension.
Pramila, a mother of two who stays in Bodh Gaya town in Gaya district, about 110 km from here, said she wanted to get justice as his legal wife.
Pramila works as an Anganbari Sevika in Bodh Gaya after her politician husband deserted her. “I stayed over a year in my parents’ house at a village in Jehanabad district and later shifted to Bodh Gaya,” she said.
Manjhi represents Gaya parliamentary constituency.
In its report tabled in the Lok Sabha Thursday, a 11-member parliamentary committee headed by Congress leader V. Kishore Chandra S. Deo suggested that the MP be reprimanded as well.
The RJD leader has also been barred from taking his spouse or companion on official tours till the conclusion of the 14th Lok Sabha.
The committee was set up after Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee received a complaint Dec 15, 2006 from Pramila alleging the misuse of the railway pass issued in her name as her husband had taken another woman with him on official tours.
Pramila alleged that her husband was allowing the woman to avail of the medical facilities meant for her as a spouse of an MP. She said her husband had married the woman without divorcing her.