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SP, Left to protest for restoring parliament
normalcy
Thursday August 30, 2012 05:36:03 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Samajwadi
Party, the Left and TDP will demonstrate in the Parliament House
complex Friday to demand the resumption of the house and a debate
on the coal allocation issue.
The parties Thursday demanded that a Supreme Court judge should
investigate the coal block allocation that has rocked parliament
and led the BJP to demand Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
resignation.
"Parliament should function... there should be discussion,"
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters outside
parliament.
The two houses were adjourned for the seventh day Thursday amid
uproar over the controversy.
"We want a probe against the guilty by a sitting Supreme Court
judge. We also want the guilty to be punished," Yadav said, while
addressing mediapersons along with CPI's Gurudas Dasgupta, CPI-M's
Basudeb Acharia and TDP's Nama Nageswara Rao.
Demanding strong action against the guilty, Acharia accused both
the Congress and the BJP for joining hands in stalling the
parliament and said the "coal scam is bigger than the 2G
(spectrum) scam".
"We want a debate in the parliament. Both the Congress and BJP
have both joined hands. They don't want parliament to function. It
is match fixing," Acharia told reporters.
Manmohan Singh, he said, had to take the responsibility since he
was in-charge of the coal portfolio for a major part between 2004
and 2009 when the irregularities took place.
"The way there has been wrong allotment, it should be probed and
the guilty punished," Acharia said.
The BJP has been stalling parliament following the report of the
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) into coal block allocations.
The prime minister had said in parliament Monday that the
auditor's report was "clearly disputable" and "flawed" because of
its assumptions and computations.
Seeking an inquiry by a Supreme Court judge, Rao said "a through
inquiry should also be done into how much loss the nation has
incurred due to the allocation".
"We also demand that the coal block allocation should be
cancelled," he said.
Mulayam Singh, who took the lead in voicing his concern over
parliament failing to transact any business, had earlier held a
meeting with parties who are opposed to the houses being disrupted
repeatedly.
He said they would talk to leaders of other parties to seek their
support to join them in their demand for resumption of work in
parliament.
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