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Conservative peer Lord Cormack told World at One: “I know and like Lord Sewel and I was just amazed and very sad”. “Disgusting, isn’t it?”

Most of them, however, are opposed to it. Some of the Congress leaders have taken the stand that they have no objection to it provided such a policy is implemented with retrospective effect when the BJP members were the ones who had prevented functioning of the two Houses.

But this could dilute the two-week-long campaign of the Congress, Left and others on the issue of the resignations of Union minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje in the “Lalitgate” and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan...

Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sharma said Parliament is not functioning because of his “arrogance and obduracy” as he has refused to end his “maun vrat” (vow of silence) on the issue.

He also helped Blair push through historic devolution moves which created the Scottish Parliament.

Government wants to be the King and they expect the Opposition parties to behave like the subjects.

Rejecting the opposition’s charge the government had not reached out to them, Naidu said he had called a meeting of various parties on Friday morning as well but Congress backed out at the last moment and added that he was looking to call a meeting on Monday.

On Saturday, the Leader of the Opposition in the Upper House of Parliament, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, was tight-lipped on whether the Congress would take part in the meeting.

Congress made it clear that the House would not function unless External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan chief ministers, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Vasundhara Raje respectively, resigned.