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Congress gives notice for breach of privilege against Union minister Ananth Kumar

  •   Fri, Apr 06 2018 12:36:45 PM

New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI): The Congress today gave a notice for breach of privilege against Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar for misleading the Lok Sabha over continued disruptions by naming its top leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The notice was given by Congress leader K C Venugopal to the Lok Sabha Speaker today in which he also accused the government of not being interested in running the House.

I would kindly like to submit a breach of privilege notice against Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar for misleading the House in particular and the people of the country in general regarding the ongoing disruption in the Lok Sabha, the notice said.

The Congress and the entire opposition is keen to hold a discussion on the no-confidence motion and other key national issues, but the government is not showing any inclination and is not interested to discuss important issues such as the banking scam, Venugopal said.

He said as per the custom of the House after a no-confidence motion is moved, it is first taken up but it seems the government is not ready.

He (Kumar) even accused Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for the disruption in the House by naming them. He has been repeating this accusation for all these days.

"The minister was deliberately misleading the house by naming the Congress leadership, thereby hiding the fact that it was the government who was actually stopping any kind of discussion on these issues including the no-confidence motion, Venugopal said in his notice.

The Congress has been demanding a discussion on the no-confidence motion moved by its leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge.

Some other parties have also given separate notices of no confidence against the council of ministers.
  

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Fri, Apr 06 2018

    Let us remind BJP's own tradition when successive sessions were disrupted by the BJP during the UPA regime by its leaders,
    Sushma Swaraj, then 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”.
    Arun Jaitley, “By disrupting Parliament, we have given out a message to the country,”. “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.”

    Clearly, the wheel has come full circle. The Congress and the BJP have changed places.

    After the first eight sessions of UPA I, the “sitting time” lost to disruptions had reached an all-time high of 38 percent.
    The 15th Lok Sabha, with UPA II government, was the crowning glory of the BJP in disruption of the Parliament at 61%, its productive time was the worst in Indian legislative history. During the same period, the record for Rajya Sabha was equally dismal 66%. Compared to 297 bills during the 13th Lok Sabha, when the BJP-led NDA was in power and Congress in opposition, the UPA II could pass only 179 out of its planned 328 bills. Several serious pieces of legislation such as Women’s Reservation Bill, Direct Taxes Code, Microfinance Bill, Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill and the Bill enabling the introduction of Goods and Services Tax just lapsed. What was more tragic was that 60% of the question time was wasted by the BJP-led acrimony.
    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. In Rajya Sabha, where the Opposition outnumbers the treasury benches, the performance in the previous regime was marginally better during this period.
    Data proves BJP disrupts democracy.
    JaiHind

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  • Alfria, Mumbai/Mangalore

    Fri, Apr 06 2018

    He is called as shakuni , this is what happens when illiterate people hold ministerial post and can't handle pressure and cannot run the house.

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  • ediboy, mangalore

    Fri, Apr 06 2018

    Giving the notice to Lok Sabha speaker is like no step taken. she was the one who was happy to stop the proceedings everyday citing the house is not in order rather than use her position and power to talk the protesting MLAs out of the protest and go for no confidence motion. She shows direct inclination to her mother party and is not working neutrally as some of the previous LS speakers.

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  • JML Joseph, Mangalore

    Fri, Apr 06 2018

    Everyone is aware that the BJP is behind every Logjam in Parliament. Prior to 2014 they would stall the Congress. Now since they are incapable of any Vikas they have time and again proved that all they can do is blame the Congress.

    The People of this country will vote them out of the Parliament and they will be in the Opposition benches for ever. This is their rightful place.

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  • Sheikh, Karkala

    Fri, Apr 06 2018

    I compare this minister to rakhi sawant because she wanted fame for wrong reasons. Just ignore him. He is good for nothing.

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