Parliament logjam: Can the Congress beat BJP's record of disruption? - Firstpost

This is perhaps a stunning example of BJP’s contradictory political behaviour: the party that disrupted the Parliament the most in the last five decades crying foul that the Opposition is not allowing the house to work.


  • The Congress and the Opposition want Lalitgate accused Sushma Swaraj to go without a discussion or preconditions just as the way the BJP wanted many of the UPA ministers to resign while it was in opposition during the last decade.

  • In February 2014 (during UPA II), the same Swaraj again justified her party's relentless acrimony in the Parliament.

  • The 15th Lok Sabha, with UPA II government, was the crowning glory of the BJP in disruption of the Parliament - at 61 percent, its productive time was the worst in Indian legislative history.

  • The Congress can quote to BJP Arun Jaitelys justification of the pandemonium in Parliament during UPA II: If parliamentary accountability is subverted and a debate is intended to be used merely to put a lid on parliamentary accountability, it is then a legitimate tactic for the Opposition to expose the government through parliamentary instruments available at its command.


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