Government staring at house trouble in
budget session's second half
Sunday April 22, 2012 11:05:24 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
budget session of parliament is set to resume Tuesday with the
government hoping to pass some key pending bills, but also staring
at some house trouble over issues like uncontrolled inflation,
corruption and setting up of an anti-terror intelligence hub.
The government's main task in the second half would be to get the
budget for fiscal 2012-13 passed by parliament. But the going
seems tough with opposition joining hands to corner the
government.
In an indication that there would be some heat in the two houses,
opposition leaders said they would raise the key issues, as well
as other matters including the pending Lokpal bill during the
month-long sitting.
Inflation is likely to lead to fireworks, with the opposition -
both the Left and the right - closing ranks.
"Price rise is definitely one of the top issues to be raised
alongside the issue of agrarian crisis," Basudeb Acharia of
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) told IANS.
Acharia, the parliamentary party leader of the CPI-M, said the
Left parties would be meeting before the budget session resumes to
discuss the strategy.
"We have our meeting to discuss the issues which could not be
raised during the first half of the session. Those issues are like
centre-state relations, unemployment and the Lokpal bill."
The CPI-M leader said the issue of the proposed National Counter
Terrorism Centre is also likely to generate heat, as "explanation
will be sought from the government on disturbing centre state
ties".
The formation of NCTC has been deferred following the opposition
fears that the anti-terror agency with police powers will infringe
on the rights of states.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has also indicated it would seek
a discussion on price rise and the Lokpal bill.
"The government has promised to pass the Lokpal bill in the budget
session. We will press for that with our amendments," BJP's
Shahnawaz Hussain said.
The BJP leader said his party was confident that even Congress'
allies will side with it on the issues of federalism, the move to
ban cotton exports and price rise.
The government is dependent on its allies, and partly on the
opposition benches, if it has to get the crucial Lokpal bill
passed in the Rajya Sabha.
The government had convened an all-party meeting March 23 to end
the stalemate on the anti-graft Lokpal bill, but couldn't break
the ice amid a growing opposition clamour for changes in the
government's version of the legislation already passed by the Lok
Sabha.
Among the other key bills pending in parliament are the
legislations related to citizens' grievances redressal, higher
education and research and companies bill.
Another key legislation to provide food security is with a
parliamentary standing committee.
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