Chennai: Each time a parliament session is stalled, taxpayers lose a whopping Rs 20,000 per minute, according to a report on rediff.com. Parliament stalling is the favoured weapon of opposition parties when their demands are not met or to put forth their views aggressively.
"Politicians have lost the sensibility to understand that every minute they disrupt Parliament, the common man's precious money is going down the drain," said Justice V R Krishna Iyer, retired Supreme Court judge.
BJP’s parliament stalling and the demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to investigate the 2G spectrum scam, post the resignation of A. Raja has been called meaningless and futile by political pundits, a way for the BJP to save itself from similar charges in Karnataka.
Raja resigned as the cabinet minister in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology because of the 2G spectrum scam. This political scam resulted in a $40 billion loss from underpricing to the exchequer of India
This act of stalling has been slammed by Veerappa Moily, Union Law Minister, and their conduct has been likened to that of “urchins” and termed “undemocratic.” “It just looks like urchins throwing stones and running away. This cannot be done according to parliamentary practices," Moily said.
In response to BJP’s allegations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured that he will punish anybody found guilty in this case, while speaking at the Hindustan Times’ leadership Summit in New Delhi
“There should be no doubt in anybody's mind that if any wrong thing has been done by anybody, he or she will be brought to book," he said
The stalling and the ruckus created by both the parties notwithstanding, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has been quietly scrutinizing the scam and the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports on this subject. The first meeting of the PAC, chaired by Murali Manohar Joshi, BJP leader, was held on Monday and each committee member was asked to think of questions to be sent to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology for answers. The next meeting will be held as soon as the members’ questions are forwarded to the Ministry.
Although the government offered to expand the PAC by involving officials from several investigation agencies, BJP stuck to its demand for a JPC. Describing it as the "mother of all scams" and "a monumental fraud of 1.76 lakh crore", BJP chief spokesperson, Ravi Shankar Prasad said Raja must be prosecuted under the Prevention of Corruption Act
DMK chief, M. Karunanidhi, while speaking on this topic said, “Some opposition parties are stalling the Parliament in a "pre-planned" manner and have demanded Raja's resignation though he had only followed the procedure adopted by the Department of Telecommunication since 1999 in allocation of spectrum.”
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