Deadlock in Rajya Sabha: United Opposition demands PM Modi's statement on communal incidents

17 Dec 2014 Evaluate

Deadlock continued for the third day in Rajya Sabha with a united Opposition insisting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should reply to a debate on communal incidents which was not acceptable to the government. Congress member Hanumantha Rao was asked to withdraw from the House for the day by Chairman Hamid Ansari after he created ruckus.

Government said that it was ready for a discussion and accused the opposition of disrupting the House. It said the issue relates to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Home Minister Rajnath Singh would reply. An unrelenting opposition kept raising the demand and created uproar leading to one adjournment during the Zero Hour and three during the post-noon Question Hour. Amid uproar, Chairman Hamid Ansari named Congress member Hanumantha Rao under rule 255 and asked him to leave the House. He along with other opposition members was raising slogans in the Well despite warnings by the Chair.

Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M) said that since the opposition is being termed as 'anarchist' he wanted to raise a 'Point of Disorder' if the Prime Minister was willing to come to the House to reply to the debate on the contentious issue of communal violence as that can end the deadlock and asked if  the Prime Minister would listen to their discussion and reply to it and discuss who the real anarchists were.  Anand Sharma (Cong) said that If the Prime Minister does not come, there will be no work in this House. This House will not run. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that the Government is ready for discussion but opposition only wants disruption.

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