Congress criticises BJP for adjournments, calls JPC walkout pre-meditated

Aug 23, 2012 |

New Delhi

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Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Pawan Kumar Bansal on Thursday criticised the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for constantly forcing adjournments in parliament, and called the BJP's walkout from a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the 2G scam issue on Wednesday as a deliberate ploy.

Interacting with media here, Bansal termed the repeated adjournments as 'shameful' and added, "If any one member of the JPC asked them (BJP) not to convert it (JPC meeting) into a Kangaroo Court, and they find it unparliamentary, then they must look at what they speak all day in parliament. They had decided to find an excuse to walkout, and they don't want the parliament to function either."

Bansal also took on senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley over his comment on the Centre, where the BJP stalwart had asked the government as to why does it want a discussion in parliament.

Calling it a 'first in parliamentary democracy,' he accused Jaitley of questioning the basic ethos of democracy, while adding 'every party, except the BJP wants discussion in the parliament'.

He however refused to comment on the reports that the BJP was planning to resign from all parliamentary committees.

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