As Congress President Sonia Gandhi and other party leaders protested against suspension of their MPs, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Party today accused it of being a “destructive” opposition and passed a resolution against its “obstructionist and anti-development” policies.
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Scores of Congress activists, including party’s state president Ghulam Ahmad Mir, were on Tuesday detained by police here after they took out a protest rally against suspension of its 25 members from Lok Sabha.
On Monday, Mahajan suspended 25 Congress Party lawmakers for persistently defying her instructions not to hold placards, and obstruct proceedings in the Lok Sabha.
The proceedings in the Lok Sabha began on a stormy note with Samajwadi party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav wanting to speak on the suspension of the Congress members.
The unrelenting stand of the Congress has meant that Parliament has not been able to transact any substantive business during the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament. “Sushma Swaraj has broken the laws and Rajasthan chief minister is financially involved with former IPL chief Lalit Modi”, he said.
“Voice of the opposition is being suppressed in parliament”, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi told reporters.
In the Upper House, Congress leader Anand Sharma said the House was in stalemate because of the “arrogance of the Government”. The entire record of governance of the NDA government led by Shri Narendra Modi is transparent, based upon probity and propriety and faster decision making in public interest without an iota of corruption.
An exasperated speaker Mahajan said she had no choice but to suspend the MPs who had been storming the well of the chamber, chanting and waving posters.
When the matter was raised in the House by several BJP MPs, including Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu who wanted the notice to be sent to the Privileges Committee, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan sounded reluctant but later said she would consider it.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke about the accord, signed yesterday, and his ministerial colleague Nirmala Sitharaman proposed it, Naqvi said. “The high court came to the prima facie view that the Congress documents were forged and therefore to expect a chief minister to resign on the strength of forged documents is completely unfair”, he said.
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“They should review their stubborn attitude”. “I would urge them to look back a little at least”, he said in an apparent reference to the Emergency.
