Overview
- BJP Kishtwar MLA Shagun Parihar told the House during Zero Hour that areas with 'Rashtrawadi Hindu' residents were being neglected.
- National Conference, Congress and ministers objected, calling the language communal and urging the remark be struck from the record.
- Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary said Muslims, Sikhs and Christians are equally nationalist, reinforcing a call for inclusive language.
- Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather admonished Parihar to choose words carefully and restored order after a brief disruption.
- Parihar framed her point as a development grievance, citing poor roads and patients carried in palkis, and later sought a review of recordings after alleging similar earlier remarks by PDP members; no formal ruling on expungement was reported.