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Government braces for vote on FDI in Lok
Sabha
Wednesday December 05, 2012 01:06:49 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: All eyes
were on the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
Wednesday as the government braced itself for a vote in the Lok
Sabha on the issue of foreign investment in multi-brand retail.
As the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) appealed to all
parties to vote in favour of its move and defeat the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP), some consolation came from the SP that said it
was against foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail but would
not do anything to trouble the government.
Both the BSP and the SP support the government from outside.
"Netaji (SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav) has already made his
position clear on the issue - that he is against FDI. Today, after
the reply of the government, the Samajwadi Party will decide what
to do at the time of the voting. We will not do anything to
trouble the government," SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav told a news
channel.
On day two of the debate in the Lok Sabha on the issue, ahead of
the vote in the evening, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath
said the BJP was "doing politics".
"BJP is doing politics on the issue as it up to states to decide
if they want to allow FDI or not. I don't understand why we are
discussing the issue. I appeal to all political parties to vote in
favour of the government and defeat BJP," he told reporters
outside parliament.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari also
questioned the intent of the opposition.
If the opposition wanted to "persuade" the government to roll back
FDI, Tewari asked, then why did it go for a debate under Rule 184,
which entails voting, instead of Rule 193 that states how a member
would submit in writing his request for a discussion on a matter
of urgent public importance.
The four-hour debate Tuesday saw leaders from BJP and Left, as
well as allies SP, BSP and DMK, and erstwhile ally the Trinamool
Congress, criticise FDI in retail.
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