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| 'Fleedom' at midnight quips BJP, |
| Lokpal fiasco: 'Fleedom' at midnight quips BJP, says PM gave his blessing
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| INDIA
, 30-December-2011
8:19:44 AM |
| The government insists that it did not play dirty to ensure that last night, the Lokpal Bill was not put to vote in the Rajya Sabha. "The BJP are the real assassins of democracy," said the Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi. But every major political party today - including Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress - said the government down the country by manipulating the proceedings in the House to ensure a vote did not take place before the session of Parliament expired at midnight. "We are very very sad... the government handled it very badly. What happened yesterday was a caricature," said Derek O'Brien from the Triamool Congress. The BJP said that the government "ran away" from facing a vote. "India once had freedom at midnight," said the BJP's Arun Jaitley. "This was fleedom at midnight." The BJP highlighted that both the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, were present in the Rajya Sabha; both had blessed the swindle, said BJP leader Sushma Swaraj. (Watch angry responses to govt's Lokpal farce)
But the government today defended itself and blamed the BJP for the fiasco with Home Minister P Chidambaram saying the BJP tried to force amendments down government's throat in the Rajya Sabha. "The BJP had no intention of passing the Lokpal Bill, its demands could not be reconciled in a few minutes. The BJP disappointed us as the government had succeeded in passing the bill in Lok Sabha.
He also defended the government's decision to not go for a vote in the Rajya Sabha. "The government has discharged its obligations bill has not been not defeated in the Rajya Sabha, we will take up the Lokpal Bill in Budget Session."
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