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| Parliament adjourned again, |
| Parliament adjourned again, Shinde meets Sushma, no truce yet
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| INDIA
, 24-August-2012
3:44:20 AM |
| For the fourth day in a row, Parliament was adjourned before any business could be conducted, as the BJP continued to shout its demand for the Prime Minister's resignation. In an attempt to persuade the BJP to change its strategy, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde met with BJP leader Sushma Swaraj. She reportedly said that her party and its allies, who make up the NDA coalition, will not bend.
"We have a way out, won't tell you now but we have a way out. We are not scared," said National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, whose party belongs to the ruling coalition led by the Congress.
The BJP says it cannot allow Parliament to function till the Prime Minister takes responsibility for thousands of crores that were lost, according to the national auditor, in the allocation of coal fields to private firms between 2004 and 2009. Because the PM held direct charge of the Coal Ministry for three of these years, the BJP says the buck stops with him
In a report shared with Parliament last week, the Comptroller and Auditor General said that because coal fields were not auctioned, private firms benefited by upto Rs. 1.86 lakh crore. Since then, the BJP has refused to let Parliament function.
The Prime Minster said on Monday that he was ready to present his government's stand on the report in Parliament. But the BJP has said it is not interested in hearing his account. Other parties like the Left disagree. They say they want a detailed discussion on the controversy, but have also said that it's upto the BJP and Congress to find a truce
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