Monsoon Session: Rajya Sabha adjourned till 3 pm, Science , Aninews

He said the Congress should not have raked up the case of Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje signing an affidavit to get permanent residency for Modi in Britain, as the move broke 65 years of consensus of not raising state issues in Parliament, with the exception of human right violations, communal riots and atrocities on women.

Swaraj on Tuesday has said that she was ready for a debate in Parliament over Congress allegations about her links with controversial former IPL chief Lalit Modi.

Swaraj said that she was pressed hard by a senior Congress leader to give diplomatic passport to the scam accused Santosh Bagrodia.

Casting a shadow over the Narendra Modi government’s reforms agenda, the Monsoon Session of Parliament ran into an impasse on Day 1 as the Opposition dug in its heels seeking Swaraj’s resignation.

The Congress says Sushma Swaraj must be sacked for helping Mr Modi, who it calls a “fugitive”, obtain documents to travel out of Britain past year, at a time his passport stood cancelled by the Indian government. “No resignation, no discussion” was the Congress spokesman Anand Sharma’s message while replying to a volley of questions from reporters on the controversy surrounding external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj in the so-called “Lalitgate” scam.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for the opposition to work with the government. MP chief minister Shivraj Chouhan too is under fire over a multi-layered examination and recruitment scam in the state.

Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury then said a probe should be ordered in the Lalit Modi case as well as Vyapam scam and all tainted ministers should demit office till the probes concludes. Congress tactics is not to discuss but to disrupt which will “boomerang on them”, the Union Minister said indicating that the confrontation would continue as government would not accept the opposition demand. Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) had submitted a notice to chairman Hamid Ansari to suspend business under Rule 267.

As opposition members refused to relent and Congress MPs trooped into the well shouting slogans, minister of state for parliamentary affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, “Ministers will not resign”.

He said the Congress was “running away from discussion because it knows it will be exposed”. Akbar, who won the Rajya Sabha bypolls from Jharkhand earlier this month, took oath as a Rajya Sabha Member.