Is opposition being unreasonable in stalling parliament? -Governance Now

Is opposition being unreasonable in stalling parliament?

GN Bureau | August 23, 2012

Keeping up heat on the UPA-II government by paralysing parliament for the second day on Wednesday demanding the prime minister's resignation over the “coalgate”, the Bhartiya Janata Party stormed out of a meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G scam later in the day. The BJP rejected the government’s offer to talk out the alleged corruption in the allotment of the coal mines through discussion and wanted PM to appear, along with finance minister P Chidambaram and his two key officials TKA Naik and Pulok Chatterjee, before the JPC examining the 2G spectrum scam. The walkout led the UPA brass to plan for the possibility of BJP members resigning en masse from parliament to force early polls.

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