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| BJP should stop behaving as if it won 400 seats in LS polls: Omar Abdullah | | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 4: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the BJP should change its attitude and stop behaving as if it won 400 seats in the Lok Sabha elections.
Speaking to reporters after the conclusion of the two-day meeting of the NC's working committee, Abdullah, while replying to a question on the treatment of opposition members in Parliament, said everyone has the right to put forth their views in a democracy.
He also said the expunction of parts of speeches of opposition leaders in the Lok Sabha was not good.
"As far as Parliament is concerned, (NC's Srinagar MP Aga Syed) Ruhullah (Mehdi) himself was a victim of the speaker's will. A part of his speech after the election of the speaker was expunged because the speaker was not happy with him. A part of the LoP (speech) was expunged on the insistence of the BJP. This is not good. Everyone has the right to put forth his views in a democracy," Abdullah said.
The NC vice president said if there are no abuses or improper words in a member's speech, "then these things should not have been expunged from the records".
"But who will remind the BJP that while they used to talk about 400 (seats), they could not cross 240. The BJP should change its attitude to some extent. They talk as if they have 400 MPs in Parliament (Lok Sabha). They only have 240. We hope the opposition and its members are not treated like this," he added.
In his first speech as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha on Monday, Rahul Gandhi had launched a no-holds-barred attack on the BJP, accusing the leaders of the ruling party of dividing people on communal lines. Certain remarks he made during the discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President's address were later expunged.
Gandhi had on Tuesday written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, saying "selective expunction" defies logic and that the remarks be restored.
To a question on the controversy surrounding the Agniveer scheme, Abdullah said it was one of the main reasons behind the BJP winning fewer seats in the general elections and that the government should scrap the scheme.
"It is an old issue. Votes were cast against the BJP over that. One of the main reasons for the BJP's defeat was that those areas from where people join the armed forces did not accept Agniveer. |
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