New Delhi: BJP leader of opposition in both the houses Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley has alleged it was UPA which was responsible for not functioning properly of the monsoon session of the parliament.
In a joint press conference, leaders said that faced with a huge anti-incumbency, non-performance, serious allegations of corruption and mismanagement of the economy, the UPA government had initially decided upon a escapist route by cutting short the size of the Monsoon Session. Its strategy was to merely pass certain key legislations of the government and leave inadequate time on other subjects of public interest, which the Opposition wanted to have. This move of the government did not succeed.
The Congress Party (not the UPA government) announced a decision to carve out a separate state of Telangana on the eve of the Monsoon Session. It was obvious that this announcement would cast a shadow on this Session. It indeed did. The BJP utilized the session on raising the issue of Telangana and exposing the complete mismanagement of the UPA. The BJP fully supports the creation of Telangana as a separate state.
The BJP would have preferred that a Bill for creation of Telangana been brought in the Monsoon Session itself. The BJP, in the discussion on Telangana, also highlighted the difference with regard to the manner in which the NDA had created three states viz. Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
There was not a single protest held then, as against the complete mismanagement of the UPA on the creation of Telangana. The BJP had decided to use the Parliament as a forum for exposing the blunders of theUPA. We were, therefore, extremely keen on utilizing the Parliament forum to the extent possible for discussion and debates.
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