The Uttarakhand Speaker got a tongue-lashing from a woman waiting for her turn to get vaccinated on Monday morning, as others in the queue at a Dehradun centre broke into applause.

The Speaker, Premchand Aggarwal, who is also the BJP MLA from Rishikesh, had come to inaugurate the centre at Government Primary School for the inoculation of the 18-44 age group and was allegedly posing for pictures even as people waited outside.

Those in the queue got agitated.

In a video of the incident that has been shared widely on social media, a woman, standing at the door of the room where the Speaker was sitting, is heard shouting in Hindi: “We are waiting here for more than two hours. You are not fit to be here… You are here for a photo opportunity….”

When someone asks her what happened, she says: “We are standing here for the last two-and-a-half hours. This gentleman has made us wait here for two-and-a-half hours so that he can get his photographs taken. Don’t we have anything else to do? Maybe he (Aggarwal) has nothing to do.”

“Isn’t he ashamed? He is a burden on the earth. Did we vote for him to do this?” the woman asks, as the people in the queue break into applause. A voice is heard cheering her, saying: “Bahut badhiya, bahut badhiya (Very good, very good.)”

Later, Aggarwal told reporters: “There was some confusion about the time of vaccination. It was supposed to start at 11am, but people gathered there at 9am.”