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Parliament disrupted over Chidambaram's role in telecom deal
Tuesday May 08, 2012 01:01:47 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Both houses
of parliament were disrupted Tuesday morning as the opposition
raised the pitch over the alleged role of Home Minister P.
Chidambaram in helping his son get financial benefits from a
telecom deal when he was finance minister.
The Lok Sabha saw noisy disruptions, with the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) seeking a reply from the government on the issue.
Some BJP MPs staged protests near Speaker Meira Kumar's podium and
disrupted the crucial question hour.
The speaker first tried to restore peace in the house asking
protesting MPs to go back to their seats. As the MPs intensified
their protests, Meira Kumar adjourned the house till noon.
Pandemonium returned when the house resumed at 12 noon. Amid noisy
protests, the speaker allowed some business documents to be laid
down in the house before adjourning the house till 1 p.m.
Opposition MPs cited Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy's
allegations that Chidambaram had delayed permission for the sale
of Aircel to Malaysia-based Maxis in 2006 when he was finance
minister so that his son, Karthi, was financially benefited.
"The BJP is going to raise the matter very seriously in both the
houses. The government is not coming with true facts pertaining to
the deliberate delays in the Aircel-Mexis deal because of the
interest of then finance minister. We want a reply from the
government in parliament," said BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad.
He said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is being misused
and the investigative agency wants to put it on the backburner.
The upper house saw two adjournments, first for 10 minutes and
then till 12 noon.
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