Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy has criticised the expulsion of two black minority US state lawmakers, sparing a white one, in Tennessee over their gun control protests in the United States.
“US State legislature votes to expel two minority lawmakers, while keeping a third who was white. This is the state of democracy in the US,” Joy said overnight in his verified Facebook status, reports BSS.
He wrote, “The US State Department are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites”.
Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to expel Justin Jones and fellow lawmaker Justin Pearson, who are both Black, for speaking out of turn during a gun control protest in the House chamber the week prior.
Republican Gloria Johnson, a white lawmaker too participated in the demonstration, faced an expulsion vote that ultimately failed.
Jones later vowed he would seek re-election for his Nashville seat, calling his removal an attack on democracy.
Republicans voted to expel Jones and his fellow Democratic colleague Pearson for leading a gun control protest on 30 March.
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