Congress MPs returned to their seats when the Agriculture Law Repeal Bill was taken up, whereas another opposition members had been nonetheless within the effectively.
Yes. It was the choice of the celebration to not disturb the passage of the invoice. But we wished to debate numerous points associated to the Agriculture Bills… We had determined to lift the Lakhimpur Kheri incident as effectively. But we didn’t wish to be within the Well of the House when the invoice was launched, in any other case the BJP would have accused the Congress of obstructing the repeal course of.
Did the celebration demand a debate earlier?
After the introduction of the invoice, the Congress, TMC and DMK collectively demanded a dialogue. We offered our stand within the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) assembly.
But the federal government turned down your demand…
The authorities knew that it might be uncovered if we mentioned the problems. We had been all prepared for dialogue. But final night they mentioned they might not enable the talk. Had there been an argument, he would have been on the defensive.
The opposition was not collectively and TMC MPs had been nonetheless protesting…
But TMC made the identical demand in BAC as effectively. TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee stood up very aggressively for this within the speaker’s assembly.
Do you assume there will likely be unity among the many opposition within the winter session?
Congress can be making an attempt to speak to different celebration leaders to place up a united opposition in opposition to the federal government…there are a lot of points…we could also be on the identical board within the coming days.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
