Tempestuous start To Budget session
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The Budget Session of the Lok Sabha started on a tempestuous note on
Monday with members belonging to several Opposition parties storming the
Well of the House protesting against inflation and hike in rail fares
and prices of petrol, diesel and LPG.
Trouble started as soon as the Question Hour began, with members of the
Congress, Trinamool Congress, RJD, SP, Aam Aadmi Party and the Left
trooping into the Well raising the issue of prices and rail fare hike.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s repeated pleas to allow the questions to be
taken up went unheeded, leading to adjournment of the House for nearly
40 minutes.
Monday was the first day of the Budget session of the new Narendra Modi Government.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) members were also in the Well opposing the ordinance on the Polavaram project.
Slogans like “achha din ayega, mahangai badhayega (good days will
come, prices will rise)” and ‘roll back rail fare hike’ were heard.
Members also opposed rise in prices of petrol, diesel and LPG.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was seen standing in the aisle, while his
party colleagues Jyotiraditya Scindia, Deepinder Singh Hooda, K C
Venugopal and several others were in the Well.
RJD’s Pappu Yadav was vociferous in his protest as was TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee and most of his party colleagues.
Bhagwant Singh Mann of AAP was also in the Well and was heard raising the plight of Indians left behind in trouble—torn Iraq.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the House during the entire period
of turmoil along with his senior party and Ministerial colleagues L K
Advani, Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi was also seated in the front row of the Opposition benches.
Amidst the din, the replies to questions given by Petroleum Minister
Dharmendra Pradhan and Labour Minister Narendra Singh Tomar could not be
heard.
NCP’s Supriya Sule, who was asked to raise a question on unemployment,
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