Congress pulls up BJP over Parliament protests

The Congress today took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for repeatedly stalling Parliament saying it should ask its MPs not to take emoluments without doing any work.

The Congress Monday took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for repeatedly stalling Parliament saying it should ask its MPs not to take emoluments without doing any work.

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“Those who stall proceedings, they should not claim allowance for that day,” Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said.

He said Parliament was a forum for debate and not a platform for slogan raising and people had expectations from their elected representatives.

“The way BJP is acting for the past few days gives a message that it believes in mobocracy and not democracy,” he said.

Opposition MPs led by the BJP are demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum controversy that has led to the resignation of Communication and IT Minister A. Raja.