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Government makes fresh bid to break parliament stalemate
Tuesday February 08, 2011 04:25:14 PM,
IANS
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Speaker
hopeful of way out, opposition parties stick to stand
With just
two weeks to go for the budget session, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira
Kumar Monday expressed hope that parliament would function
normally even as the opposition parties stuck to their demand for
a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe
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New Delhi:
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will Tuesday meet leaders of all
political parties in a renewed effort ahead of the budget session
to resolve the deadlock over the opposition's demand for a joint
parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam.
Mukherjee called for the all-party meeting to ensure that the
crucial budget session, beginning Feb 21, runs smoothly. The
winter session was crippled by the opposition, led by the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left, and worries are that
the three-month budget session could go the same way.
The BJP and the Left, among others, have relentlessly stuck to
their demand for the JPC probe into the scandal that has cornered
the Manmohan Singh government.
The government has ruled out the JPC probe into the scam that cost
former IT and communication minister A. Raja of the DMK his job
months before he was arrested last week.
The BJP has said there would be no parliament if there is no JPC
with its leader L.K. Advani maintaining that there is "no
dilution" in the stand of the party and its allies in the National
Democratic Alliance on the demand.
Ahead of the meeting at the Parliament Annexe, Communist Party of
India (CPI) leader D. Raja said the Left was ready to listen to
the government to resolve the impasse. But he maintained that the
responsibility of running parliament rested with the government.
"We will listen to them and then will take a call. We are for the
JPC and the government should accept it. We want the house to
function. To run the house is the responsibility of the
government," Raja told IANS.
The budget session of parliament begins Feb 21. The government
will present the general budget in the Lok Sabha Feb 28.
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