After ”Political Nonsense”, Rahul Is Creating ”Political Nuisance”: BJP
09 August, New Delhi
In a scathing attack on Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi,the BJP today said he was creating a ”political nuisance” by launching his party on the path of negativism because of which invaluable time of Parliament was being wasted.
Writing in his blog ahead of the last leg of the Monsoon Session starting tomorrow, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, ”Political journey from ‘nonsense to nuisance’ of Rahul Baba, the ‘brand new leader’ of the ‘grand old party’, is miles away from ground realities.”
He said in India, the worlds largest democracy, Parliament was the supreme and the most effective institution to raise peoples concerns, to express their expectations and aspirations and to solve issues. Disruption in Parliament on genuine issues was an acceptable part of Parliamentary democracy but that disruption must be issue-based, logical and in the interest of people of the country, he said, adding that the Opposition had every democratic right to raise its voice if the Government is ignoring public interest.
”But what we have seen from day one of the current Monsoon Session of Parliament, which started on July 21, is disruption on non-issues and without any logic. It is against democratic principles,” he said.
Referring to the continuing protest of the Congress against suspension of its party MPs, Naqvi pointed out that there were several earlier instances when Members were suspended:.
A total of 63 Members were suspended on March 15, 1989 for demanding tabling of report of Justice Thakkar Commission on assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
On August 23, 2013, under the UPA Government some Members were suspended by the then Speaker Meira Kumar. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan was compelled to suspend the Congress Members because there was no other option left.
Naqvi reiterated that the Government was always ready for debate on all the issues and to resolve them. ”The Government urged the Congress for discussion on all the issues but the main Opposition was adamant on its negative and arrogant strategy,” he said.