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| Parliament's stormy Day One: BJP |
| Parliament's stormy Day One: BJP targets PM
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| INDIA
, 1-August-2011
8:52:7 AM |
| Day 1 of the new Parliament session was short - both Houses were adjourned by noon- long enough for the war cries to ring out.
The BJP has formally sought a debate, followed by a vote on corruption and price rise. The Left wants it too. The government says it doesn't have a problem with that, as long as the resolution moved by the Opposition does not refer specifically to a party or an individual.
"How is a debate possible on a resolution that does not include names?" asked CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury.
"The government is on the back foot," said the BJP's Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley. "The guilty cannot lay down the rules of the game." The government, they added, wants to protect the guilty behind "a purdah" (veil).
Before he headed into Parliament this morning, the Prime Minister said he hoped "this session will be constructive and productive." An aspirational remark, given that the Opposition has made it clear that the telecom scam - and the PM's alleged involvement - will be dissected in minute detail. It is also bristling at the PM's remark yesterday that the Opposition has "too many skeletons in its cupboard."
His appeal today that parties unite to solve major problems facing the country thus fell on deaf years. The BJP instead lashed out at him for what it called his "unprovoked and ill-advised" comment that had "vitiated the monsoon session" as it began.
Swaraj and Jaitley took the battle right back to the PM's court to say that this was his way of "sidetracking the issue" because he is "faced with several questions because of recent disclosures relating to the allotment of 2G spectrum and he does not have replies."
Accusing the Prime Minister of being involved in the "micromanagement of the (2G Spectrum) policy, Mr Jaitley said, "The PM knew that the finance ministry wanted an auction of 2G spectrum...Then P Chidambaram (then Finance Minister) changed his stand. "Why,
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