New Delhi, Sept 3 (IBNS) Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Monday hit out at main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for stalling the Parliament and said they are causing huge losses to the country over the disruptions.
"The presumptive, the real, imaginary, what is the loss? Why not BJP gives us how much the loss they are causing to the country by doing what they are doing in Parliament?" Khurshid told reporters outside the Parliament on Monday.
"Everyday the country is losing not just the time in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, but in terms of what they are doing by paralysing the decisions and legislation we want to take, whatever we want to do fight corruption," Khurshid said.
The Congress minister said the BJP's condition that they will allow discussions in the House only after cancellation of coal block allocations, is 'not a way' to sort out the issue.
Both Houses of the Indian Parliament were adjourned for the day on Monday as the BJP created ruckus over the coal block allocation issue.
The BJP demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation over the matter.
Both the houses of the Parliament were initially adjourned on Monday till noon over the coalgate.
The Lok Sabha was later adjourned for the day while Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm.
With the BJP and the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) failing to arrive at any consensus over letting the houses function, the parliament remained stalled.
BJP members raised a din soon after the Houses opened for the day. Only some obituary references could be passed.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said it is owing to the "obdurate and stubborn" stance of the BJP that the parliament was stalled though 70 percent lawmakers were in favour of the house being run smoothly.
On the BJP's demand for cancellation of coal blocks allocation as a condition for letting the House run, Bansal said the government has to follow the due process of law.
He said the consent of the BJP chief ministers were taken during the allocation.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had earlier spoken to Leader of Opposition (BJP) in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj to break the deadlock but both sides failed to arrive at a consensus.
While BJP stuck to its demand for resignation of the Prime Minister over the coal scam, the party said they would allow parliament to function for the rest of the monsoon session (which ends on Sept 7) only if all coal blocks allocated controversially were cancelled and independent probe was ordered.
Congress has ruled out cancellation of licences under the pressure of BJP.
The coal report of the CAG has pointed finger at the loss-making coal block allocations when the portfolio was held by Manmohan Singh.
The report by the CAG said 25 private companies received benefits of around Rs 1.86 lakh crore through of coalblock allocations in various states.