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Parliament disrupted over 1984 killings, caste census, farmers'
plight
Tuesday March 01, 2011 09:21:33 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Ruckus by
opposition MPs over various issues, including the plight of
farmers in Madhya Pradesh, the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, caste census
and phone tapping, led to disruptions in both houses of parliament
Tuesday.
Opposition members sought to raise the killing of Sikhs in Rewari
district of Haryana in the anti-Sikh riots in 1984. The issue
surfaced after a Sikh organisation claimed to have dug out the
details of the massacre.
Speaker Meira Kumar had to adjourn the Lok Sabha till noon.
A mob had allegedly wiped out a Sikh village Nov 2, 1984, three
days after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi,
killing 32 people. The district administration has ordered
preliminary inquiry into the incident.
Scenes in the Rajya Sabha were also noisy with MPs raising the
issue.
As soon as the house met, opposition MPs of the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) along with those of ally Shiromani Akali Dal sought to
raise the issue. Chairman Hamid Ansari asked the members to give a
notice and raise the issue during zero hour.
The members, however, could not be pacified and the house was
adjourned till 12 noon.
Members returned to the house at noon and so did the noise, but
this time over a different issue.
The BJP members created uproar over the plight of farmers in
Madhya Pradesh claiming that frost had damaged their crops.
Bhupinder Singh from the state raised the issue saying that the
Madhya Pradesh government had already spent Rs.900 crore to help
the farmers. He alleged that the central government was not
providing them with any support despite repeated pleas from the
BJP-led state government.
The BJP member demanded a statement from the government.
Deputy Speaker Karia Munda ruled it out saying it was zero hour
and the government was not bound by rules to reply. Not satisfied,
BJP members led by Gopinath Munde trooped to the speaker's podium
forcing the chair to adjourn the house till 2 p.m.
It was the third adjournment of the day.
Earlier, there was also a din in the Lok Sabha over the caste
census, with members demanding that the government state when and
how it was likely to start collecting the demographic data of
Indians on the basis of their caste.
MPs protested near the speaker's podium creating a ruckus and
forcing the chair to adjourn the house and call off question hour.
When the house reassembled at 12 noon, Home Minister P.
Chidambaram referred to a paragraph in Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee's statement in which he had promised that the caste
census would begin in June.
"The census on caste will begin in June and end in September. If
any honourable member wishes to make suggestions on how to go
about it, we will consider the suggestions," Chidambaram said.
AIADMK MPs also protested over phone tapping ordered by the
government.
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