Friday, August 5 2005 12:27 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: In yet another snub to mercurial Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today (August 5, 2005) rejected the grossly defamatory insinuations made against him about taking decisions on political grounds.

"I wish to repudiate categorically and with all the authority of the Chair and with all sincerity the reprehensible insinuation that my decision was prompted by political considerations," Chatterjee said in a statement in the House as it assembled for the day.