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dated February 26, 1954: Use of word `cheek'

The Speaker of the Madras Legislative Assembly has circularised a note to the members holding that the way in which the word "cheek" was used in the House by a member on a former occasion was not unparliamentary. In the last session of the Assembly in January, Mr. S. S. Kolkebail, in his speech, had said that "Mr. Ananta Pai had the cheek to say that the Praja Socialist Party members were carrying on a propaganda". Mr. Ananta Pai raised a point of order whether the use of the word "cheek" was unparliamentary or not. The Speaker told the House then that he would look into the matter and give his opinion. In his note circulated on February 23 to the members, the Speaker referred to the use of the word "cheek" in the British House of Commons on two occasions, in 1927 and 1952, and pointed out that on the first occasion no point of order was raised and on the latter occasion the Speaker held that although he did not approve of the epithet, there was "nothing unparliamentary about it". The Speaker of the Assembly gave his opinion that "in the way in which the word `cheek' was uttered by Mr. Kolkebail and in the context in which it was uttered, I do not consider it unparliamentary."

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