Budget Session: Opposition in black foils govt bid for division

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By Our Special Correspondent

New Delhi, March 27: Raghav Chaddha, the Rajya Sabha MP of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), came with an adjournment notice to discuss the issue of the Opposition leaders being targeted by the investigative agencies. The meeting of the Opposition called by Congress president Mallikarjuna Kharge in the evening on Monday had two members from the Samajwadi Party.

Opposition MPs wore black within Parliament and outside also. Even the likes of NK Premchandran, the RSP MP from Kerala, sported black, while agitating along with the other Opposition MPs in front of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi. By all accounts, there were no signs of chink in the Opposition camp.

The united Opposition also showed no signs of tiring out on Monday. Congress MPs threw torn papers to the chair of the Lok Sabha Speaker. Opposition MPs stayed put in the well of the two Houses on Monday to force adjournments within minutes. Even while a section of the Opposition parties were not so excited about associating with the demand for joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on the alleged Adani scam, they seem to be fully backing Congress.

The Opposition meeting called by Kharge had the disqualified Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi sitting beside him. Even if the non-Congress MPs don’t say it in open, the fear factor appears to have gripped him that their turns could also come soon.

Staring at the prospects of the Budget Session of Parliament adjourned sine die any time after the Opposition-led lockdown, the government sought to fan the conspiracy theory within Congress for the disqualification of Gandhi. “Congress has a number of seasoned lawyers, who practice in the Supreme Court. Yet, they didn’t counsel Gandhi that immediate and urgent legal remedy be sought after the Surat Court conviction. This shows that there is a conspiracy within Congress against Gandhi,” said Union Minister and leader of the Rajya Sabha Piyush Goyal, while speaking to reporters outside Parliament.

Contrary to the suggestions that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had persuaded Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to maintain equal distance from the BJP and Congress, the party leader Ram Gopal Yadav and its Lok Sabha MP ST Hasan attended the Opposition meeting called by Kharge.

The Opposition parties, opined political observers, will be happy to bag a Parliament washout to take their battle into the people’s court. The Lok Sabha has functioned in the past even without the Opposition, but this time the presiding officers seem sweating out against the united Opposition.

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