New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party today continue to boycott the Rajya Sabha and said that party will oppose until the parliamentary bulletin naming its members for trooping into the Well of the House protesting Defence Minister A K Antony’s statement on LoC killings is withdrawn.
BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu outside parliament said, “Unless the notice of names is not withdrawn, there is no question of going to the House. We will continue the protest.”
The Parliament bulletin has named 20 BJP MPs and two TDP MPs for “disorderly conduct in violation of rules and etiquettes of the Rajya Sabha and willfully obstructing the proceedings of the House.”
Hardening its stand against the Congress, BJP also ruled out any cooperation with the government. “There is no question of any cooperation with the government. We have seen clearly that this government is partisan and vindictive. They cannot expect any support from us on any issues.”
Rajya Sabha was adjourned repeatedly after vociferous protests from BJP and TDP members over naming of their party colleagues in the House bulletin for disrupting proceedings.
Naidu said while referring to the women reservation issue, “When women reservation copy was snatched and torn away by an MP from the Minister then what happened to the rules; nothing happened. It is discrimination. In the Lok Sabha you allow your men to disrupt the House. But in the Rajya Sabha if the members protest you name them.”
BJP MP Dharmendra Pradahan, named in the bulletin for violation of rules in the House, said, “If raising voice against those who killed our soldiers is a crime then we are willing to commit such crime again and again.”
BJP MP Smriti Irani, who was named in the notice, said, “I will wear this as a badge of honor. That day Mani Shankar Aiyar and everybody were raising this issue. But no Congress men are in the bulletin. Yesterday, I raised the slogan ‘Pakistan Murdabad’ in the Well of the House.
If that is a violation of the etiquette then it is a matter of honor for me. If for raising such slogan, I am getting a notice then I think it is a honor for me. No notice can compel me to praise Pakistan after the killing of five soldiers by them.”
Bureau Report
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