TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee strikes a defiant pose on the mimicry incident

TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee says Opposition MPs were conducting a mock Parliament and he had not mentioned the name of either the Lok Sabha Speaker or the Rajya Sabha Chairman.

"If he (Jagdeep Dhankhar) has taken it on his shoulders, I am helpless... I did not take any names. Does he really behave like this?" he asked. 

Banerjee said he has respect for Dhankhar as "we both are from the same profession. He is a senior advocate and I am also a senior advocate; he is our ex-governor (of Bengal) and is now VP and Chairman".

The Trinamool MP also asserted that mimicry is an "art" and "it has also been done by the PM in the Lok Sabha itself... but everyone took it as being ok... if people take it (Banerjee's mimicry of Dhankhar) seriously, then I am helpless".