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| Dasmunsi condemns `uncalled for' disruptions by BJP | | | NEW DELHI
The "shocking behaviour" of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Parliament on Monday and repeated, uncalled for disruptions through the last week, were roundly condemned by the Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, Mr. Dasmunsi made it plain that the BJP was itself not interested in discussion Nandigram or any other issue.
It had been conveyed by the Leader of the House, Pranab Mukherjee, to both the leaders of opposition in the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha, Jaswant Singh and L.K. Advani, that since the Deputy Speaker in the chair in the Lok Sabha had not allowed a discussion on Nandigram on the ground that it was a state subject, the BJP was free to bring it up during Zero Hour or raise it during a discussion on internal security.
The offer was declined.
It was totally unacceptable and unparliamentary behaviour on the part of the Opposition that the BJP leaders had their say on the Railway Budget and the general Budget but when it came to Ministers responding to the points raised by them, the BJP did not allow them to speak. In the Rajya Sabha on Monday, Mr. Dasmunsi said that he had to rush to prevent the BJP chief whip S.S. Ahluwalia from snatching the papers from the Finance Minister's hand.
"Mr. Ahluwalia, I was told, wanted to speak to me. I was there, and suddenly instead of coming towards me he turned and moved towards Mr. Chidambaram," Mr. Dasmunsi told reporters.
Earlier, the BJP deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha Sushma Swaraj denied that Mr. Ahluwalia had attempted to move towards Mr. Chidambaram. She claimed that in the chamber of the Chairman, Rajya Sabha, it had been agreed that Mr. Chidambaram would not speak but simply lay his speech in the House as well as other papers relating to government business. When he began to speak the BJP members were agitated as that was not what was agreed.
Ms. Swaraj said that there was no need for the BJP to apologise for bad behaviour. "He [Ahluwalia] didn't touch Mr. Chidambaram. Why should we apologise?" However, Mr. Dasmunsi and many other leaders from parties felt that the BJP behaviour had touched an all-time low and the party should apologise as the Left and the DMK had done after the clash on the maritime university bill.
Mr. Dasmunsi said no agreement had been hammered out with the BJP that Mr. Chidambaram would not speak.
The BJP had made it a habit that their leaders speak at length and then the party finds some excuse to disrupt proceedings to prevent others from having their say.
On Monday Mr. Chidambaram had begun speaking and the Prime Minister had conveyed that he would like to be present when the appropriation bill is passed. Then the "shocking" incident happened, he said.
While the BJP said that on Tuesday Mr. Advani would move an adjournment motion on the Nandigram issue in the Lok Sabha and a censure motion in the Rajya Sabha, Mr. Dasmunsi alleged that the BJP had failed to give an assurance that if allowed to raise the Nandigram issue it would also allow the Left and the Government to have their say.
"The party which shed no tears over more than 2,000 people killed in cold blood in Gujarat is now crying and sending its team here and there," Mr. Dasmunsi added.
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