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Now, ruling alliance stages walk-out of Maharashtra Legislative Council

  •   Wed, Aug 02 2017 08:28:30 PM

Mumbai, Aug 2 (IANS): In an unprecedented act, members of Maharashtra's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena alliance staged a "walk-out" from the Legislative Council on Tuesday, accusing the Opposition parties of repeatedly disrupting the proceedings.

The development came after a series of three adjournments in the upper house by the belligerent opposition parties - which are in majority in the upper house - on various issues, including a demand for the resignation of Housing Minister Prakash Mehta.

Complaining that the opposition parties were not allowing the ministers and legislators to speak, the ruling BJP-SS members walked out of the house in the afternoon.

"This is the first time in the country's legislative history that we have witnessed the ruling alliance members walking out of the house," said Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Dhananjay Munde.

Parliamentry Affairs Minister Girish Bapat said that since the opposition number is higher in the upper house, they were not allowing the ruling alliance to function.

"Not a single bill has been passed so far. They are not permitting our members and legislators to speak in the house," he claimed.

Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil said that "we are a law-making body and need to follow rules, precedents and the law".

Shiv Sena leader Anil Parab accused the opposition Congress-Nationalist Congress Party members of flouting rules, creating ruckus and disrupting the proceedings of the upper house.

Retorting, NCP's Munde said that the Opposition was raising pertinent issues of corruption in various projects.

"However, they are trying to crush the voice of the Opposition," Munde told media persons.

He said that the Opposition has been raising issues of corruption in the Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway project, massive graft in a slum redevelopment project and other matters.

"It became difficult for the ruling party members to reply to the opposition's charges on the massive corruption in various projects and they adopted the route of 'walking out' of the upper house," Munde said.

Senior Congress leader Sanjay Dutt, meanwhile, appealed to the ruling alliance members to "uphold the traditions of democratic perspectives in the legislature" and return to the house and join the proceedings. He met Bapat separately and urged him for the same.

The Council has a strength of 78 MLCs - in which BJP has 17 legislators and Shiv Sena 9 - totalling 26, whereas combined Opposition parties have 52 members.
  

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Thu, Aug 03 2017

    One nation two rules for BJP. When they are in opposition during UPA II Arun Jaitley, had justified “By disrupting Parliament, we have given out a message to the country,” he had said. “When we disrupted Parliament three years back on 2G scam, the telecom sector was cleaned. Now, the country is faced by the issue, how to clean up the entire process of allocation of resources.”

    Sushma Swaraj, the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, had declared that “not allowing Parliament to function is also a form of democracy, like any other form”.

    Congress floor managers would then invariably point an accusing finger at the BJP for stalling Parliament sessions, appeal for peace and declare that it was ready for a discussion on any issue which the opposition wished to raise.
    Clearly, the wheel has come full circle.The Congress and the BJP have changed places.

    The Congress and the Opposition want Lalitgate accused Sushma Swaraj to go without a discussion or preconditions just as the way the BJP wanted many of the UPA ministers to resign while it was in opposition during the last decade. Resign first, discuss later - was what the BJP had told the UPA then. Today, the Congress is paying back in the same coin.
    In the first five sessions of the BJP-led NDA, Lok Sabha functioned for 704 of 711 hours available while in these sessions during Congress-led UPA, the House recorded productive time of 549 hours against 768 hours of scheduled time, as per PRS legislative research data.

    Now one can judge who disrupt assemblies more when BJP justifies it as 'part of democracy'
    Jai Hind

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  • Esther, Mumbai

    Wed, Aug 02 2017

    Corruption quiz:
    1. Which party's president was caught taking a bribe?
    2. Which party had a second party president probed for shady deals?
    3. Which party's Union Minister was caught taking a bribe while saying "money is not god, but no less divine ?
    4. Name the political affiliations of former Chief ministers of Karnataka indicted for corruption
    Just a glimpse of corruption. Sushma swaraj & Reddy bros, vasundara raje and IPL modi is not included.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, Aug 02 2017

    Why all this Nautanki - Walk out permanently ...

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