“If they (Congress) feel they are being discriminated, we are ready for a discussion”, he said.
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As both sides continued to hurl charges at each other, Kurien adjourned the proceedings for the day.
“The government seems to have a set policy of keeping busy even the small Opposition parties with fake cases so that no one can question it on crucial issues”, Mr Azad told reporters after the Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day.
“Now, they want to become champions of the farmers”, the Congress leader remarked. He said the case was opened on the directions of the government and Subramanian Swamy, who has filed the petition in court.
I simply wonder how can government come up with two different set of rules – one for the ruling party and one for the Opposition.
“ED had shut the case”.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affiars Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the Congress was insulting the mandate of the people and went on to suggest that the House should not be adjourned.
However, as soon as the finance minister stood up for speaking, opposition members, who maintained silence while Azad spoke, started raising slogans again. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government replied that while the Congress party believes that it is hurting Prime Minister Narendra Modi by stopping Parliament from functioning, it is actually hurting the country by not allowing crucial reforms bills to be passed.
Amid the din, the Lok Sabha on Wednesday witnessed a slugfest between the Congress and the government, which accused the principal Opposition party of “threatening the judiciary through disruptions in the Parliament”.
The MoS for Parliamentary Affairs said Congress should “not to threaten the Courts through the Parliament”.
The Lalit Modi scam was a fit case for registering a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by ED in which the government should have set an example by launching prosecution against the Rajasthan chief minister and her son besides others, Mr Azad alleged and added “the silence adopted by the government in this matter showed its real face”.
He said the House is unable to take up important bills, including the Whistle Blowers Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2015, because of the obstructions by the grand old party.
There is Lalitgate but no FIR has been registered.
This only proves that “dal mein kala nahin hai par poora dal kala hai”.
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The house was first adjourned shortly after it met at 11 a.m. when it was adjourned till 11.30 a.m., and then till 12 noon.
