From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Jul 25: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu lambasted the Congress and other Opposition parties for obstructing parliament and not allowing it to function.
Addressing a news conference in Bengaluru on Saturday, he said the Congress and other opposition parties were unable to digest their massive defeat and the massive majority given to the NDA during the last Lok Sabha polls and were preventing the Narendra Modi regime for discharging its constitutional duties and obligations.
Naidu said the Congress cannot reclaim lost ground with this tactics of obstruction and disruption of parliament. Unfortunately, the Congress has gone back and followed its politics of predetermined strategy of washout of the House.
He gave a clean chit to External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj and Chief Ministers of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and said the Congress party is now doing smear politics forgetting the corruption in their own backyard.
"All the Congress chief Ministers have been facing corruption charges and massive corruption had taken place in Congress ruled states. How can they accuse others that too on false charges?,’’ he asked.
"Now people are feeling that while in power the Congress neglected development and now while in the Opposition it obstructing the growth," the Minister said.
Noting that there was a growing feeling that parliament was becoming hindrance to law making and governance, he said the Congress was not ready for discussion of various allegations made against BJP leaders.
"The Congress refused to move the motion after having given notices for the same in the parliament," Naidu said.
In a federal set up, parliament cannot sit on the judgment on state issues, he said and asked: "Who are criminals? Can the Governments, Chief Ministers and Prime Ministers, who helped Anderson to go out of country in a special plane in spite of 3500 people killed and thousands have been disabled permanently after Bhopal gas tragedy, teach morals to others?."
Naidu appealed to the Congress party to allow parliament to function. "We are ready for a thorough debate," he said.
He, however, chose not to answer the obstructions that paralysed parliament when the BJP was in the opposition and said the situation was not comparable.