Left, BSP to meet Prez to demand immediate Parliament session
Leaders of Left parties, BSP and Telugu Desam would meet President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday to demand immediate convening of Parliament session.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Leaders of Left parties, BSP and Telugu Desam would meet President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday to demand immediate convening of Parliament session.
The meeting comes in the wake of the Left demand that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should quit for "lying to people and Parliament" on the Indo-US nuclear deal. They had also demanded the immediate convening of Parliament session to discuss several "burning" issues like the nuclear deal and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir as well as Orissa.
Left sources said the Rashtrapati Bhavan had fixed their appointment with the President on Tuesday. Reacting to reports on exchange of letters between the State Department and the then US House Foreign Affairs Committee on the deal in Januray, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat had said "the only option left to them (UPA) is that the Prime Minister should quit.
"But neither will they convene Parliament session nor will they quit.... It is a shameless government."
"Why are they afraid of Parliament? Why are they running away. When a serious situation had developed in Jammu and Kashmir, a session should have been convened. But by not convening the session, the government has shown complete disregard and contempt for Parliament," he had said.
The Monsoon Session was supposed to have started in August, but the government has decided to convene the next session from October 17.
The meeting comes in the wake of the Left demand that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should quit for "lying to people and Parliament" on the Indo-US nuclear deal. They had also demanded the immediate convening of Parliament session to discuss several "burning" issues like the nuclear deal and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir as well as Orissa.
Left sources said the Rashtrapati Bhavan had fixed their appointment with the President on Tuesday. Reacting to reports on exchange of letters between the State Department and the then US House Foreign Affairs Committee on the deal in Januray, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat had said "the only option left to them (UPA) is that the Prime Minister should quit.
"But neither will they convene Parliament session nor will they quit.... It is a shameless government."
"Why are they afraid of Parliament? Why are they running away. When a serious situation had developed in Jammu and Kashmir, a session should have been convened. But by not convening the session, the government has shown complete disregard and contempt for Parliament," he had said.
The Monsoon Session was supposed to have started in August, but the government has decided to convene the next session from October 17.
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