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Key bills pile up as BJP stalls parliament
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SME Times News Bureau | 27 Aug, 2011
Key bills on internal security, farmers, price rise and economic
slowdown are on the backburner as parliament remains stalled over the
BJP's demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's ouster over
irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks.
Some of the
bills pending include Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment at
Workplace Bill, Whistle Blowers Protection Bill, Prevention of Bribery
of Foreign Public Officials and Officials of Public International
Organisations Bill, Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement
Bill, and the Chemical Weapons (Amendment) Bill.
The bulk of them were introduced in 2011 and some in 2010.
Predictably,
the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance blamed the Bharatiya
Janata Party for the parliament deadlock. But the BJP says the pile up
is because the government had failed to convince its own allies over
some of them.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal
said the government had planned to take up at least 25 of the 31 pending
bills in the monsoon session that ends Sep 7.
"It is unfortunate
that the BJP is not allowing parliament to function," Bansal told
IANS. "Since the monsoon session started (Aug 8), only one bill could be
taken up in each house."
Government sources said with the past
week of parliament washed out, there was little hope of the logjam
ending in the coming weeks as the BJP was adamant on Manmohan Singh's
exit.
The BJP countered this.
"We supported the pension
bill but their own ally (Trinamool Congress) opposed it... We are not
to be blamed," BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad told IANS.
Stating that
parliament should function so that important issues can be taken up, BJP
ally Janata Dal-United said debates should be result-oriented.
"There
have been debates on 2G spectrum and CWG scams without any result...
But parliament should function so that important bills are taken up,"
JD-U Lok Sabha MP Bhudeo Choudhary told IANS.
Communist Party of
India leader D. Raja said both the government and the main opposition
party were responsible for running the parliament.
"We want the
prime minister to face the parliament on the coal blocks allocation...
For that parliament should function... It is the primary responsibility
of the government to run the parliament but BJP is equally
responsible," Raja told IANS.
Biju Janata Dal's Bhartruhari Mahtab said the BJP was making parliament irrelevant.
"The
BJP is making parliament irrelevant," Mahtab told IANS. "Burning
issues like internal security, farmers' plight, price rise and economic
slowdown have been relegated to the background."
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