A day after the Lok Sabha witnessed the action-packed participation of several legislators in the calling attention motion on alleged alteration of the affidavit relating to Ishrat Jahan case, the mat
A day after the Lok Sabha witnessed the action-packed participation of several legislators in the calling attention motion on alleged alteration of the affidavit relating to Ishrat Jahan case, the matter again resurfaced in the Lower House on Friday when the Congress, alleging “gross injustice” for being disallowed to put across their views, sought permission from Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to allow at least one of its MPs to put across the party’s point of view on the matter.
The request of the main Opposition party was however, disallowed by the Speaker.
“Gross injustice was done to the entire Opposition parties” which were disallowed from participating in the discussion on Ishrat Jahan issue, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said amid protests from party members.
He said for want of the Opposition’s participation, the discussion was “biased” and saw “baseless” allegations against the erstwhile UPA government and its leadership and projected a “one-sided story”.
“It was all a cooked-up story against the Congress and its leaders”, he said, adding that party leader Veerappa Moily had sought a permission to seek clarifications from home minister Rajnath Singh, which was denied.
Minister of state for parliamentary affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy, however, dismissed the Congress charge. He said that after a decision was taken in the business advisory committee that the issue would be taken up, it was for Congress members to give notice for participation, which was not done by them.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan observed whatever the minister has said was “correct”.
Responding to clarifications, the home minister had on Thursday accused the erstwhile UPA government of hatching a “deep conspiracy” to frame Narendra Modi when he was the chief minister of Gujarat.
Home minister Rajnath Singh had also alleged that the previous regime had done a “flip-flop” on the links of Ishrat Jahan with terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.
