Congress demands PM Modi`s explanation on corruption charges against ministers

“Congress wants to tarnish the image of the Prime Minister and the government and they don’t want Modi government to succeed”, he alleged. “Sushma Swaraj should come to parliament, but she should resign on grounds of propriety”, he said.

She added that she would reveal the name of the Congress leader in Parliament.

Now Chauhan is at the centre of one of India’s biggest and longest-running corruption scandals that, along with another scam linked to an Indian cricket league, is being used by the Congress Party-led opposition to stop India’s monsoon session of parliament functioning.

You start with the debate.

Alternately, the minister may have timed exposing the Congress at the beginning of Parliament’s monsoon session.

Lacking a majority in the upper house, the BJP needs opposition support to pass its bills including the goods and services tax (GST), which harmonises a myriad of state and central levies. They are but playing to the galleries, and today, also to the television cameras that beam their actions directly into the living rooms of the people.

Hoping to deflect the opposition flak, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said she did not recommend travel documents for former IPL chief Lalit Modi.

While Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the Lok Sabha till Monday, the Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till noon following noisy protests by Congress MPs.

After the House was adjourned, he greeted former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and shook hands with him and then further walked up to Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad’s seat and shook hands with him too.

While the current mood in the Congress and the BJP camp is for confrontation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is finding it hard to break the stand-off because the so-called trouble-shooters in the government do not have cordial relations with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, the Left and the JD(U).

The opposition, on the other hand, asked to whom were the protesting ruling alliance members pitching their demands.

“We have clearly stated our strategy“. “We are ready for a thorough debate”, he said.

A senior Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), leader said that the party was also called for the meeting but it skipped because “most of the opposition parties had taken a collective decision”.

Mayawati said, “Vyapam is’t a assert concern, it’s a…” The opposition, particularly the Congress, was not interested in holding discussions (in parliament) and only wanted to disrupt the proceedings of both Houses, Naqvi said.