This has been evident from their prolonged absenteeism from the Lok Sabha. He said Jaitley was a signatory to the inquiry report dated June 10, 2013 and yet he did not file an FIR that would have exposed “the conflict of interest of his master (read Narendra Modi)”.
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“We are trying our best to sort out the issue (of deadlock)…”
To be fair, in India’s federal system, the fate of state chief ministers doesn’t lie in Modi’s hands.
The BJP is preparing to use this as a pretext to launch a counter offensive against Congress for shying away from a debate on a subject for which it has been organising protests for a little over a month.
It’s Modi’s job to find a way out of this impasse before Parliament’s next session.
There is little doubt that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) success in getting an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha was entirely due to the popular expectation that Modi will vigorously pursue economic reforms.
Welcoming the move, Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa said Jagmeet Brar has been soldier of the party and this would further strengthen the party in Punjab in the coming Vidhan Sabha polls. They have said that, Sushma Swaraj ji, the Rajasthan Chief Minister and the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister have carried out, in some cases, illegal acts. Chaired by Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, the meeting proved to be an exercise in futility as it failed to resolve the crisis.
Senior leaders in the government argue that the Congress-led opposition was deliberately blocking the legislative agenda by not allowing Parliament to function for the first two weeks of the monsoon session.
The Congress yesterday continued its vociferous protests in and outside Parliament and alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “very close” to fugitive former IPL chief Lalit Modi.
The crucial Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Re-settlement (Second) Bill is now before the Standing Committee. “I want Monday to be Monday and I don’t want Monday to be a Sunday”, he told reporters in Chennai. The government has refused to budge on opposition demands for their resignation. Having already been branded “anti-farmer”, the ruling alliance does not want to take a risk on this issue before the crucial Bihar assembly elections. The monsoon session will end in four days on Thursday, August 13. It has instead offered a discussion under rule 193, which does not require a vote. “The Congress MPs were just raising the voice of the people of India and they were suspended in a very undemocratic way”, Sharma claimed.
The Opposition party, however, told the Government that it was not amused by the politics of abuse resorted to by BJP leaders and Union Ministers against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
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The upper house was adjourned for the day after heated arguments between Congress and treasury benches over the stalemate in the house over the Lalit Modi and Vyapam issues.
