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No
parliament business for ninth day, 2G deadlock on
Wednesday November 24, 2010 02:55:20 PM, IANS
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New Delhi:
It was the ninth successive day of no business in parliament
Wednesday with both houses being adjourned again over the
opposition demand for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe
into the 2G spectrum allocation.
It was another day of commotion in both houses as slogans and
counter-slogan shouting forced the presiding officers of the Lok
Sabha and the Rajya Sabha to call it a day.
Noisy protests greeted Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar as soon as
she entered the house at 11 a.m.
Even before Meira Kumar could take her seat, MPs from the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD),
the Janata Dal-United JD-U, the Samajwadi Party (SP) gathered near
the speaker's podium shouting slogans.
They were demanding the setting up of a JPC to probe alleged
irregularities in the allocation of second-generation mobile
telephony spectrum two years that is said to have caused the
national exchequer huge financial losses.
As the speaker called the question hour, the Congress' Harish
Choudhary raised the issue about irrigation projects in Rajasthan.
His was the first question listed for the day.
But the noise made him barely audible. The electoral victory of
the BJP-JD-U combine in Bihar echoed in the house with some BJP
members flaunting the triumph and shouting "Jai Bihar" slogans.
The protesting MPs also shouted slogans like "We want JPC" and
held placards reading "We want JPC" and "We want justice".
Members from the ruling alliance led by the Congress countered
with slogans and placards demanding the resignation of Karnataka
Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa over land scam charges.
Some Congress MPs were seen rushing to the speaker's podium with
placards and shouting slogans like "Book Bellary Brothers", "Sack
Yeddyurappa".
The Congress' Haroon Rasheed almost reached the podium when he was
stopped by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who
asked him to go back to his seat.
The slogan shouting prompted Meira Kumar to adjourn the house till
noon.
When the house resumed, the din continued and Deputy Speaker Karia
Munda adjourned the house till 11 a.m. Thursday.
The pandemonium in the Rajya Sabha beggan as soon as Chairman
Hamid Ansari at 11 a.m. called for the question hour to be taken
up, but BJP and AIADMK members trooped to his podium shouting "We
Want JPC" and "Bhrastachari Sharam Karo".
Ansari pleaded: "Please don't come into the well." He also asked
the MPs from the ruling benches not to display banners, which
demanded the removal of Yeddyurappa. The protesting, MPs, however
didn't relent and continued shouting slogans.
Ansari adjourned the house till noon but when the protests
continued when it resumed, forcing its adjournment for the day.
Question hour has not even once been conducted in the Rajya Sabha
since the winter session began Nov 9.
Barring the first day of the winter session, the Lok Sabha and the
Rajya Sabha have not functioned normally for even one full day to
transact legislative business.
Since Nov 10, both the houses have been witnessing adjournments as
soon as they meet every morning. Parliament has not transacted any
significant business as the question hour was taken up in the Lok
Sabha only on the first day of the winter session.
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on the first day as a
mark of respect to a sitting member who died during inter-session
period.
The nine successive days parliament's adjournment without any
major business translates into a loss of a a staggering Rs.70
crore with the expenditure for each day of a session calculated at
Rs.7.8 crore.
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