Trinamool Congress M.P. Mahua Moitra accused Om Birla, a prominent Lok Sabha Speaker, of squelching their voices in the House.
She slammed BJP ministers for not including other ministers in the ongoing second round of the budget session. Proceedings in the Parliament got disrupted on Wednesday as a heated debate began between the two factions.
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Mahua Moitra’s accusation in detail
Mahua Moitra mentioned that for the last three days, only BJP members are permitted to speak on the microphone in the Parliament and then go unquestioned by any other member from another party in its opposition.
Moitra’s response is followed by the BJP’s painting of a target on Rahul Gandhi. The BJP extended the mockery by adding that India’s democracy is not decaying but rather that it’s the Congress party that is close to peril.
Moitra even publicly denounced the government by tweeting that she is even ready to be jailed for this. In addition to what she said, another congress leader, Adhir Ranjan Chawdhary, comes forward to openly criticize Om Birla against what he believed to be a “government-sponsored disruption.”
The opposition faction will gear up the debate by accusing Modi of weakening and undermining Indian democracy by installing Parliament in favor of big businessmen.
Other protests in conjunction with Moitra
M.P. Mahua questioned the government over Xiaomi’s donation to PM Cares funds after the ED seized it already on Saturday (PTI). Other parties too mentioned the mega scam of the Adani Group as a strategy to take hold of people’s money invested in public sectors like SBI and LIC.
The Lok Sabha witnessed a storm of leaders raising placards and slogans. Some other leaders from about 16 other parties and Congress joined the protest march from Parliament House to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office to provide a memorandum over the Adani issue. Although both Trinamool and the Nationalist Congress Party didn’t participate in the march,
However, the inability of the parties to physically submit the memorandum to the ED forced them to email it to the probe agency. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharje took the task of emailing the letter into his own hands.
The second round of the budget session had been disrupted because of the current standoff between the government and the other parties. All the opposite factions now jointly demand a parliamentary commission and a close investigation by the court to take place in response to the Adani Hindenburg issue.
The Bharatiya Janata Party attacks back.
Om Birla reverted in an attack that the microphone he kept on his table hadn’t worked for three days. Further backfiring by stating that Rahul Gandhi’s statement about microphones of opposite parties being often muted in India does not make any sense at all.
BJP leader Om Birla would also request the other parties to let the Parliament run peacefully, further mentioning that the house is for holding debates and dealing with important issues related to the welfare of the people. He even asked them to stop allegedly painting accusations on the house if they half respect it as a temple of democracy.
While the Congress leaders are still in attack mode, the BJP leaders take a firm stand in opposition, demanding the Congress MP Rahul Gandhi apologize for his remarks in the United Kingdom since his statement has put the entire government in crisis as he alleged the democracy in India is severely threatened and under attack. He is also accused of casting aspersions on the House leader.
