PM Modi tries to push GST amidst high drama in Parliament

With four days left to go for the monsoon session, the Congress continued to paralyse both houses of parliament, forcing finance minister Arun Jaitley on 10 August to go hammer and tongs against the situation prevailing in the Rajya Sabha.

The issue cropped up again when the House re-assembled at noon for question hour, with other Opposition leaders also raising the issue. “You have to ensure that the house functions”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday praised Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Sngh Yadav for his “effort to break logjam”, while taking a dig at those who are “misusing Parliament to stop the pace of country’s growth”. We want Parliament to function.

“Maybe, the two leaders of Congress are unable to accept the fact that someone outside the Gandhi family can also run the country“, he said, without naming anyone.

When asked by the Opposition members on what is the new thing the government was offering them, Naidu cited the offer of intervention by Modi during discussions.

“We want the prime minister to speak and take action”, Kharge added. The party with 25 leaders leading the dharna daily against to Modi government.

More than 20,000 people, led by dozens of top tycoons, have signed a petition urging politicians who have disrupted every day of the three-week session to approve the new tax.

“If anybody is responsible for the situation (in parliament), then it is the government and the prime minister”.

With nearly all the opposition parties coming together against the congress attitude to not allow parliament to function, Congress is in a dilemma how to proceed.

The Congress has been upsetting the working of Parliament over their interest of evacuation of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje for supposedly helping previous IPL boss Lalit Modi. Although Congress might argue that these issues are serious enough to demand for the resignations of ministers, their real intentions are well known.

Amidst the heated arguments between opposition members and members from the treasury benches, Congress leader from Andhra Pradesh J. Seelam trooped into the well and stood in front of Jaitley. Otherwise, it may wait until a session late in the year, leaving little time to implement the tax by a deadline of April 2016.