Sources in the Congress stated that there’s a view in the party that with a lot of the legislative enterprise of the Monsoon session but to be carried out due to the close to wash-out of the proceedings over protests towards senior BJP leaders caught in controversy, the federal government might attempt to push sure Bills amidst the din by means of supplementary agenda. We want to raise many important issues of public interest on the floor of the house.
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Congress members shouted slogans against the Narendra Modi government.
“Getting back on the BJP’s attitude as opposition party, she said “yesterday’s agitators in both the Houses have suddenly become today’s champions of debate and discussion” and rubbed it in by saying that the BJP was the author of” “resign now, debate later” principle when it was in the opposition.
As Congress members shouted slogans in the Well and all his pleas fell on deaf ears, Kurien adjourned the House for the day.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi charged the Congress with not wanting to participate in a discussion on the issues it was raising. While the Congress and the Left parties have taken a common stand on not letting Parliament function till the three leaders resign, the BSP, Trinamool Congress and the Samajwadi Party are not insisting on their resignations first. When the House reassembled, the situation was same and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari adjourned it as he could not take up the Question Hour. He then adjourned the House till 1430 hours.
As members of opposition and treasury benches indulged in heated exchanged, he said, “The members know the rules well”. But disruptions and subsequent adjournments are depriving us (of) this opportunity.
Earlier in the morning, there was pandemonium in the Upper House soon after it mourned the death of former member Jagannath Singh and paid homage to freedom fighters. He also said the House had no tradition of suspending members.
He raised the issue of a notice given by 30 MPs of the ruling National Democratic Alliance to Chairman M. Hamid Ansari on Thursday, requesting him to take action against Congress parliamentarians for disrupting the proceedings.
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As the Deputy Chairman asked Agarwal how he got a copy of the letter written by BJP MPs, slogan-shouting Congress members trooped into the Well and started sloganeering vociferously.
