Media reports false: Mohan

Advani denied reports suggesting that the Home Ministry was getting the matter inquired, Mohan said and urged the Speaker to display the weapons, if at all they were found from him. He said media reports on recovery of weapons from him were false and baseless and aimed at tarnishing his image.

About the threatening phone calls to reporters who had filed stories on the alleged recovery of weapons, he said none had made those calls.

"However, if anybody ever threatened the reporters, I am begging pardon with folded hands," he said.

On his eviction from the House, Mohan said the marshalling out was not sudden or unexpected. "Itwas rather a part of my strategy to ensure that my views on the Women’s Reservation Bill are taken note of," he said.

"What will a member do if he is not invited at the all party meeting on the issue or allowed to place his views in the House," he asked.

He maintained that he did not do anything in the House to lower its dignity. Mohan’s wife, Lovely Anand, a former MP said, "Where were the marshals when some members snatched papers from the chair and from the law minister and tore them off or when they trooped into the well of the House." She had thrown leaflets supporting the Bill in the Lok Sabha from the visitors’ gallery a day after her husband was marshalled out.

Mohan said none can prevent passage of the Bill in its present form or with some minor amendments. He said he was thankful to those who created controversy over the Bill as by doing so they awakened women about their rights.