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Reports on Jaya Bachchan plaint wrong: Rajya
Sabha secretariat
Wednesday May 16, 2012 10:10:26 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Amid
reports on some TV news channels that Samajwadi Party MP Jaya
Bachchan had complained to Chairman M. Hamid Ansari about cameras
excessively focusing on her during the oath-taking ceremony of
actress Rekha, the Rajya Sabha secretariat Wednesday denied the
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"The attention of the secretariat has been drawn to the reports in
the electronic media that Smt. Jaya Bachchan, MP, Rajya Sabha, has
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"Smt. Jaya Bachchan has written to the chairman, committee on
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It said that the live coverage of the proceedings of the Rajya
Sabha continued to be undertaken by Doordarshan. "This function is
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television," the statement said.
TV channels had reported in the evening that Jaya Bachchan had
complained to Ansari that the cameras in the Rajya Sabha kept
cutting to her when actor Rekha was being sworn-in as an MP
Tuesday. Rekha was nominated to the upper house by the president.
Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary told mediapersons that an
individual had the right to complain.
There were reports claiming that Jaya Bachchan had got her seat
shifted to avoid being in the camera frame with Rekha, who was her
co-star in the 1981 Bollywood film "Silsila".
Jaya Bachachan earlier had seat number 91 while Rekha was allotted
seat number 99. Jaya Bachchan said she wanted to change the seat
because of the demise of party colleague Brij Bhushan Tiwari, who
sat next to her.
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