After witnessing two adjournments before noon, the Lok Sabha was disrupted again and adjourned for the day. The uproar on the demonetisation issue with the ruling party and the Opposition leads to the adjournment and House proceeding was disrupted again.
The government aggressively blamed the opposition members for wasting people’s money by not letting Parliament function and asked them to go to Jantar Mantar for a dharna.
When the House met at 11 a.m., the Speaker Sumitra Mahajan welcomed a delegation from Vietnam. After that, she also said by remembering the Parliament attacks that the security forces bravely foiled the cowardly attack and paid tributes to the martyrs of the Parliament attack on December 13, 2001.
When the Speaker announced about the Question Hour, the Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge was on his feet, but the members from the treasury benches shouted back mentioning the President Pranab Mukherjee’s appeal on the majority being disrupted by the minority in Parliament.
After that, the Speaker adjourned the house till 11.30 a.m.
When the house again met then the Bharatiya Janata Party member Meenakshi Lekhi said to the Opposition that Parliament was not the place for dharnas and opposition members should go to Jantar Mantar.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.N. Ananth Kumar said that the Opposition should apologise to the nation for disrupting the proceedings of the House.
The Parliamentary Affairs Minister said, “This is not the way... when the majority wants to participate in a discussion, they are disrupting.”
He then added, “They must apologise to the nation. They are wasting people's money.”
The Speaker Sumitra Mahajan then adjourned the house till noon.
After these adjournments when the house met again, the Speaker announced that the Aam Aadmi Party MP Bhagwant Mann has been found guilty of video-recording Parliament's security system and has been suspended for the rest of the ongoing winter session.
During the slogannering, the Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar introduced the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Second Amendment) Bill, 2016.
After all this as the Speaker announced taking up of the Zero Hour, opposition members began shouting “shame shame.” Because of this the Speaker adjourned the house and said, “Jao sab chhutti par (go on a holiday)”.
Since the beginning of the winter session on November 16, the Lok Sabha has been witnessing disruptions over the issue of demonetisation in which the opposition members in the house demanding a debate on demonetisation under rules that entail voting.
The ruling party not agreed to this stating that voting will send a message that there is division in the house.
The stalemate has not been broken after when the Speaker also offered to the opposition to take up a debate without any rule.
Before the ending of the session, Parliament now has only three working days left with holiday on December 12 and 13.
The whole protest was done by the opposition members over the demonetisation issue which was announced by the Prime Minister on November 8 by which the old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes was declared as an illegal tender from the announcement date.
--with agency inputs
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