Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar warns Congress against stalling monsoon session in Parliament

BENGALURU: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar has warned the Congress against stalling the monsoon session of the Parliament. The minister said that the Congress had managed to disrupt proceedings by orchestrating protests in the budget session but it won’t be allowed to do so in the next session. The statement came on the day 325 MPs of NDA staged a day-long hunger strike against the stalling of Parliament.

BJP MPs D V Sadananda Gowda, Ananth Kumar and P C Mohan led by Union Minister Prakash Javadekar sat on a day-long protest in Bengaluru while party president Amit Shah and state president B S Yeddyurappa accompanied by a host of state leaders protested in Hubballi on Thursday.

In Bengaluru close to 200 party workers staged a satyagraha from 10am to 5pm in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue at Anand Rao Circle. Addressing the protestors, Union Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said, “I urge the parliamentary affairs minister to ensure that the members of the Congress party are evicted out of the house if they continue to disrupt so that important issues and bills are discussed in the house,” he said.

Taking a jibe at Rahul for the Congress’ “incomplete fast” earlier in the week, Ananth Kumar said, “Modi has come from a poor background and is used to fasting all day but Shehzaada Rahul Gandhi has never fasted. This explains why he fasted merely for a couple of hours when his party staged a fake fast protest.”