Opposition clueless about their role: BJP

NEW DELHI: In a sharp riposte to the allegations that no debate was allowed in Parliament during the just concluded winter session, BJP on Friday said the opposition parties are going through “Rahu Kaal” and have lost control over their actions.
At a press conference, BJP spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said the role of the opposition can be best summarised as “one step forward, two steps backward and situation awkward” as they are clueless about their role. Trivedi said the government was ready to hold discussion on all crucial issue including those about farmers but the opposition showed least respect to the House decorum and disrupted the proceedings.
“In the business advisory committee meetings, the opposition parties say something else and they change their stance once they come out. It seems the opposition parties are going through Rahu Kaal,” Trivedi said. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said it is “both astonishing and saddening” that members of the opposition, especially senior members of Congress, deviated from the well-known truth of what transpired during the session. “The public of our country and even history is witness to the level of noise and indiscipline the opposition has made a kind of practice to bring to the House sittings. In fact the opposition appears to use every means to not let the House proceedings carry on. It was painful, when some members of the opposition reduced the temple of democracy to a theatre of street fight,” he said. Reacting to Joshi’s statement, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said, “I hope the mention of my name in Pralhad Joshi's statement defending an unconstitutonal and illegal suspension of 12 MPs is not a prelude to my suspension for the forthcoming Budget session. This regime is capable of anything and most of all is simply not interested in any meaningful discussion on pressing national issues.” Trivedi was joined by Urban Development Minister Hardeep Puri as both hit out at the Opposition for House disruptions.
“BJP is the largest party that may have the biggest responsibility to run Parliament but no party can say it has no responsibility,” he said. The BJP leader countered the opposition’s criticism that the government got several bills passed in the din and without any discussion, saying many legislations were passed during the Congress-led UPA government in a matter of minutes.