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  • Tuesday, April, 2024| Today's Market | Current Time: 04:38:27
  • The CWG mess rocked Parliament for the second day on Tuesday as opposition NDA stalled the Question Hour in both the Houses and demanded resignation of Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit in the wake CAG observations against her.

    In the Lok Sabha, soon after Speaker Meira Kumar finished references to the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, BJP and Shiv Sena members trooped into the well raising slogans against Dikshit.

    Amid din, SP members rushed to the well in the Lok Sabha and raised the issue of fake encounters in Uttar Pradesh.

    Parliamentary Affairs Minister P K Bansal was heard saying that if this was the stand of the Opposition the House should be adjourned for the day.

    In Rajya Sabha, opposition BJP members began shouting slogans even before Chairman Hamid Ansari took his seat.

    As Ansari took up the questions listed for the day, BJP members started moving towards the well shouting slogans against Dikshit.

    To counter the opposition attack, some ruling party members stood up holding posters alleging cost overrun and overpayment for projects in BJP-ruled Gujarat.

    Ansari asked members not to show banners. “What are you doing? No banners please,” he said.

    As the din continued, he adjourned the house till noon, barely minutes after it met for the day.

    BJP demands suspension of Question Hour to discuss CWG scam

    Stepping up its attack on the govt, BJP has demanded suspension of Question Hour in Parliament to discuss the Commonwealth Games scam and the Privilege motion against Sports Minister Ajay Maken.

    “BJP demands suspension of Question Hour in Parliament to discuss CWG scam and Privilege Motion against Sports Minister Ajay Maken,” BJP leader S S Ahluwalia told reporters in New Delhi on Tuesday.

    The decision was taken at a meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Party.

    Contending that Maken had misled the nation by his statement in Parliament on CWG appointments, BJP insisted that they will not spare the government on this issue.

    “We will not only discuss the statement, we will also discuss the Shunglu Committee reports, the functioning of the CWG Organising Committee and observations of the CAG,” Ahluwalia said,

    “We are not going to spare the government on this issue,” he said.

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