SIR disrupts Parliament; JP Nadda calls it double standards | India News
NEW DELHIl Parliament proceedings were disrupted on Thursday as opposition parties protested the revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls, while in RS, leader of the House JP Nadda accused them of displaying “double standards” by walking out when home minister Amit Shah started replying to the debate on Operation Sindoor on Wednesday, insisting that a reply come from PM Modi.Nadda cited a precedent from the Congress-led UPA government era, when a discussion on the home ministry’s statement on the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks was replied to by the then PM and home minister in LS, and then by the home minister in RS.LoP in RS Mallikarjun Kharge, however, later clarified that the opposition had not walked out against Shah’s replying to the debate but to protest his remark “main akela hi apko nipat lunga (I can handle you myself)”. “We said PM is here, please call him to the House…,” he said.Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju underlined that the PM replied to the debate in LS for 1.42 hours on Tuesday and said the govt has collective responsibility and the opposition doesn’t get to decide who will speak.Nadda sought to remind the opposition that the Chair had made it clear during a BAC meeting and in RS that it’s the govt’s prerogative to decide which minister should speak and reply.
