new delhi congress leader shashi tharoor and bjp mp nishikant dubey have sought breach of privilege proceedings against each other after a spat on social media over tharoors remarks on taking up the facebooks hate rules issue in the parliamentary standing committee on information technologytharoor is the chairman of the panel while dubey is a memberin his letter to lok sabha speaker om birla tharoor alleged that the bjp mp made disparaging remarks on social media over his decision to summon a panel meeting to discuss the alleged misconduct of facebookhe also took strong objection to dubeys remarks on twitter that the chairman of standing committee does not have the authority to do anything without discussion of the agenda with its membershitting back dubey in his petition to the speaker stuck to his stand that tharoor has no powers to summon any entity or organisation before the panel without consulting its membershe said the agenda of any sitting of the parliamentary committee is decided after consultation with all the members of the parliamentary committeebut tharoor never consulted the agenda of summoning facebook andor whatsapp in any of the meetings of the parliamentary committee he saidit is therefore a clear case of breach of privilege by dr shashi tharoor in the capacity of chairperson of the departmentally related standing committee on information technology he said in the noticehe alleged tharoor has committed a serious breach of privilege to use the parliamentary committee platform not only to serve his political agenda but also to tarnish bjp and sensationalise a small incident by misusing his official powersthe war of words between the two leaders started after tharoor said on twitter that standing committee would like to hear from facebook officials about its hate speech rules in the wake of a report in the wall street journal which claimed that the social media giant refused to apply such rules to certain ruling party politicians in indiasuggesting that tharoor was using the committees platform for politics dubey alleged he decided to call facebook officials to satisfy the ego of rahul gandhi who had alleged that bjp and rss controlling the social media platformanguished over the alleged disparaging remarks made by dubey against his decision to call a meeting of the panel tharoor said it amounted to breach of privilege of his position as an mp and chairman of the standing committeethe matter pertains to the disparaging remarks made by dubey on a social media platform regarding my decision to summon a committee meeting to discuss the alleged misconduct of facebook and seek clarity on the measures that it intends to undertake to curb the spread of hate speech and fake news tharoor saidnishikant dubeys derogatory remarks have not only brought disrepute to my position as a member of parliament and chairman but also to an institution that mirrors the will of the people of our country tharoor alleged in the letter a copy of which was also marked to sunil kumar singh chairman of parliamentary