Congress, 'ghamandiya' allies insulted presiding officers: Piyush Goyal

BJP on Monday accused Congress and its allies of "insulting" the Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha Chairman and "embarrassing" the country with their conduct. Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha Piyush Goyal told reporters that Opposition members brought placards and wilfully disrupted parliamentary proceedings despite the decision taken earlier that placards would not be allowed in the Houses. Goyal made these remarks after the suspension of MPs.

"Since very important legislations were to be taken up in Parliament, they did not want the House to run smoothly, this was their strategy," Goyal said. They refused to heed repeated requests of the Speaker and the Chairman and insulted them, he said.

"It was clearly their pre-planned strategy to not allow Parliament to run smoothly," he said, noting that a bill to provide reservation to women in Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry was taken up for consideration and passage in the Rajya Sabha but protesting opposition members did not allow a discussion.


"Congress and its allies are intrinsically against the interests of women and backward classes. Whenever the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes any step to empower backward classes and women, they are pained because Congress and Left are always against their empowerment," he said.